Arabic calligraphy

thumb|300x300px|The classical Kufic script of the Blue Quran.

calligraphy using the Arabic script, for religious or non-religious expression

small, round script of Islamic calligraphy

artistic practice of calligraphy in the Islamic world

thumb|Quran Hud (surah)|11:88 in the Thuluth scripture, calligraphed and signed by [[Mahmud II|263x263px]]

thumbnail|center|alt=Diwani calligraphy by Kazasker Mustafa Izzet Efendi|Diwani calligraphy by [[Kazasker Mustafa Izzet Efendi]] Diwani is a calligraphic variety of Arabic script, a cursive style developed during the reign of the early Ottoman Turks (16th century - early 17th century). It reached its height of popularity under Süleyman I the Magnificent (1520–1566).

Muhaqqaq is one of the main six types of calligraphic script in Arabic. The Arabic word muḥaqqaq () means "consummate" or "clear", and originally was used to denote any accomplished piece of calligraphy.

Calligraphic style used in China for the Arabic script

arabic script

one of a number of early Arabic alphabets that developed in the Hijaz; more angular and slopes to the right; lacks vowel points, but differentiate consonants by the intermittent use of dashes

one of the six canonical scripts of Perso-Arabic calligraphy

Arabic letter yeh barree (U+06D2) or big yā, elongated variant of the Arabic letter Farsi yā, used in Urdu and Shahmukhi to represent a long vowel /eː/ or /ɛː/

form of Arabic script

thumb|Qur'an verse 3:85-88 written in tawqi‘ with Persian annotations in Naskh (script)|naskh (14th century) Tawqi‘ () is a calligraphic variety of the Arabic script. It is a modified and smaller version of the thuluth script. Both scripts were developed by Ibn Muqlah. The tawqi‘ script was further refined by Ibn al-Bawwab.

Reqāʿ () is one of the six scripts of Arabic calligraphy used primarily for letters, edicts, or manuscripts. ''Reqa' was used for private correspondence on small papers or for nonreligious books and texts. Ibn al-Nadim mentioned in Al-Fihrist that the inventor of Reqaʿ was al-Fadl ibn Sahl. This script was one of the most popular scripts in the Ottoman Empire. Reqaʿ was gradually simplified by other calligraphers, and was changed into a form called Ruqʿah () or Riqʿah'' (), which is now the most common handwriting script in the Arab world.

thumb|400px|Mashq elongations in the Maghrebi script used to write [[surahs 105-114 of an 18th-century Maghrebi Quran.]] thumb|400px|Qur'anic manuscript of Surah 17: Al-Isra written in Kufic script with mashq extensions.

open-source Arabic typeface