# Rayhani script

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[[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](/source/muhaqqaq), and the two blocks sandwiched in between each comprise eight lines in rayhani. [Iran](/source/Iran), 1186. [Chester Beatty Library](/source/Chester_Beatty_Library)]]
[[File:Two pages of Quran by Yaqut al-Musta'simi.TIEM 507.jpg|thumb|Opening pages from a [Qur'an](/source/Qur'an) copied in rayhani by [Yaqut al-Musta’simi](/source/Yaqut_al-Musta%E2%80%99simi). [Baghdad](/source/Baghdad), 1286/1287. [Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum](/source/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](/source/Mamluk_Sultanate) Qur'an copied in rayhani by [Ali ibn Muhammad al-Mukattib al-Ashrafi](/source/Ali_ibn_Muhammad_al-Mukattib_al-Ashrafi) (attribution). [Cairo](/source/Cairo), c. 1370–1375. [British Library](/source/British_Library)]]
'''Reyhan''' or '''Rayḥānī''' ({{langx|ar|ریحان}}) is one of the six canonical scripts of [Perso-Arabic calligraphy](/source/Islamic_calligraphy). The word Reyhan means [basil](/source/basil) in [Arabic](/source/Arabic) and [Persian](/source/Persian_language). Reyhan is considered a finer variant of [Muhaqqaq](/source/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](/source/Abbasid) era by [Ibn al-Bawwab](/source/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](/source/Yaqut_al-Musta%E2%80%99simi)'s method.<ref>[Nassar Mansour](/source/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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