Reqa

Reqa (Arabic: رِقَاع‎) is one of the six scripts of Arabic calligraphy. Reqa was used for private correspondence on small papers or for nonreligious books and texts. Ibn al-Nadim mentioned in his book Al-Fehrest, that the inventor of Reqa script was Al-Fadl ibn Sahl. The script was one of the most favorite scripts in Ottoman Empire. Reqa became gradually simpler by other calligraphers and was changed to a new script called Ruqʿah, which is now the most common handwritten script in Arab countries.[1]

References
  1. َAli Akbar Dehkhoda (1945), Dehkhoda Dictionary [Farhang-e Dehkhoda] (in German), Tehran University, ISBN 9789640396179
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