Reqa'

Reqāʿ (Arabic: رِقَاع) is one of the six scripts of Arabic calligraphy used primarily for letters, edicts, or manuscripts.

[1] 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.

Reqa' was gradually simplified by other calligraphers and was changed to a new script called Ruqʿah (رُقعة) or Riqʿah (رِقعة), which is now the most common handwritten script in Arab countries.

[2] This article related to the Arabic script is a stub.