rayḥānī script

Arabic calligraphy

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In Ibn al-Bawwāb
…who reputedly invented the cursive rayḥānī and muḥaqqaq scripts. He refined several of the calligraphic styles invented a century earlier by Ibn Muqlah, including the naskhī and tawqī scripts, and collected and preserved for his students numerous original manuscripts of that master.
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