[[File:Illuminated double-page. Zarin Qalam's Qur'an (CBL Is 1438, ff.124b-125a).jpg|thumb|Double-page from the Qur'an copied by 'Abd al-Rahman b. Abi Bakr b 'Abd al-Rahman al-Katib al-Maliki, called Zarin Qalam (Golden Pen). Each page of this manuscript has nineteen lines of text; the first, tenth, and nineteenth lines are written in muhaqqaq, and the two blocks sandwiched in between each comprise eight lines in rayhani. Iran, 1186. Chester Beatty Library]] [[File:Two pages of Quran by Yaqut al-Musta'simi.TIEM 507.jpg|thumb|Opening pages from a Qur'an copied in rayhani by Yaqut al-Musta’simi. Baghdad, 1286/1287. Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum]] [[File:Double-page from the juz' 9 of the Sultan Barquq's Qur'an (BL Or 848 f. 2v-3r).jpg|thumb|Double-page from a Mamluk Qur'an copied in rayhani by Ali ibn Muhammad al-Mukattib al-Ashrafi (attribution). Cairo, c. 1370–1375. British Library]] '''Reyhan''' or '''Rayḥānī''' ({{langx|ar|ریحان}}) is one of the six canonical scripts of Perso-Arabic calligraphy. The word Reyhan means basil in Arabic and Persian. Reyhan is considered a finer variant of Muhaqqaq script, likened to flowers and leaves of basil.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://golestane.net/showthread.php?tid=17508|title=معرفی خط ریحان|work=golestane.net|accessdate=1 September 2015}}</ref>
Rayḥānī was developed during the Abbasid era by Ibn al-Bawwab.<ref>الفخرو، إبراهيم بن يوسف (2015م). رحلة الخط العربي في ظلال المصحف الشريف (الطبعة الأولى). صفحة 100</ref> Academic studies of Rayhani have included analytical study of the technical characteristics of Yaqut al-Musta’simi's method.<ref>Nassar Mansour ''Yaqut al-Musta’simi, Analytical Study of the Technical Characteristics of his Method in Rayhani Script'', (in Arabic), 2018, Jordan Journal of History and Archaeology</ref>
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