{
 "id": "concept/rayhan-script",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "rayhan-script",
 "label": {
  "ar": "خط الريحان",
  "en": "Rayhan script",
  "ur": "خطِ ریحان"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أحد الأقلام الستة الموزونة، صورة أصغر من المحقق وقرينه الدقيق، فضّل للوثائق الديوانية والخواتيم وزخرفة الأغلفة والصفحات المزخرفة {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 26}.",
  "en": "One of the six proportional pens, a smaller variant and partner of muhaqqaq, preferred for chancery documents, colophons, book covers and carpet pages {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 26}.",
  "ur": "اقلامِ ستہ میں سے ایک، محقق کی چھوٹی صورت اور جوڑی دار، دیوانی دستاویزات، ترقیموں، جلدوں اور منقش صفحات کے لیے پسندیدہ {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 26}۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "made",
  "objects",
  "words"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "arts-of-the-book"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "art_form",
  "sources": [
   "source/ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "source/ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 scan pp. 25, 26",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker I)",
   "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
   "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 2
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الريحان أحد [[concept/al-aqlam-al-sitta|الأقلام الستة]]، وهو عند مريم اختيار صورة أصغر من [[concept/muhaqqaq-script|المحقق]] يؤلف معه زوجًا من جليل ودقيق. {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 25} {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 26}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "استعماله",
     "markdown": "تذكر المؤلفة أن الريحان مع [[concept/tawqi-script|التوقيع]] و[[concept/riqa-script|الرقاع]] فضّل للوثائق الديوانية وخواتيم الكتب، ولزخرفة أغلفة الكتب والصفحات المزخرفة. {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 26} وتعدّه أيضًا من الخطوط التي نشأت للاستعمال الإداري في الدواوين. {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 26}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/rayhan-script",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [],
    "status": {
     "review": "published"
    },
    "provenance": {
     "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker I)",
     "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
     "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04",
     "source": "source/ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 scan pp. 25, 26"
    }
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-04"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Rayhan is one of the [[concept/al-aqlam-al-sitta|six pens]]; for Maryam Ekhtiar it is a smaller variant of [[concept/muhaqqaq-script|muhaqqaq]], with which it forms a large–small pair. {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 25} {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 26}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Uses",
     "markdown": "The author notes that rayhan, with [[concept/tawqi-script|tawqi']] and [[concept/riqa-script|riqa']], was preferred for chancery documents and colophons, and to embellish book covers and carpet pages. {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 26} She also lists it among the scripts that emerged for administrative use in the chanceries. {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 26}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/rayhan-script",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker I), claude-opus-5-5"
    ],
    "status": {
     "review": "published"
    },
    "provenance": {
     "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker I)",
     "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
     "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04",
     "source": "source/ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 scan pp. 25, 26",
     "translator_of": "content/ar/concept/rayhan-script.md"
    }
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-04"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "ریحان [[concept/al-aqlam-al-sitta|اقلامِ ستہ]] میں سے ہے؛ مریم اختیار کے نزدیک یہ [[concept/muhaqqaq-script|محقق]] کی چھوٹی صورت ہے جس کے ساتھ جلی و باریک کا جوڑا بناتا ہے۔ {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 25} {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 26}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "استعمال",
     "markdown": "مصنفہ کے مطابق ریحان، [[concept/tawqi-script|توقیع]] اور [[concept/riqa-script|رقاع]] کے ساتھ دیوانی دستاویزات اور ترقیموں، اور کتابوں کی جلدوں اور منقش صفحات کی تزئین کے لیے پسند کیا گیا۔ {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 26} وہ اسے دفاتر میں انتظامی استعمال کے لیے ابھرنے والے خطوط میں بھی گنتی ہیں۔ {cite:ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 p. 26}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/rayhan-script",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker I), claude-opus-5-5"
    ],
    "status": {
     "review": "published"
    },
    "provenance": {
     "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker I)",
     "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
     "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04",
     "source": "source/ekhtiar-how-to-read-islamic-calligraphy-2018 scan pp. 25, 26",
     "translator_of": "content/ar/concept/rayhan-script.md"
    }
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-04"
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-04",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/arghun-al-kamili",
   "type": "exemplified_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/blair-islamic-calligraphy-2006"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/arghun-al-kamili",
  "person/yaqut-al-mustasimi",
  "place/baghdad",
  "concept/abbasid-tin-glazed-ware",
  "concept/ahmadnagar-painting",
  "concept/al-aqlam-al-sitta",
  "concept/arabesque",
  "concept/bijapur-painting"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}