Tawqi' script

Tawqi' is one of the six pens, forming a large–small pair with riqa'. ² Maryam Ekhtiar notes that tawqi' and riqa' are marked by unusual joins between letters not linked in other scripts, such as dal and alif. ¹

With rayhan and riqa' it was preferred for chancery documents, colophons, book covers and carpet pages, and the author lists it among the chancery scripts. ¹ Ta'liq shares its exaggerated descending loops, connected letters and upward-sloping words at the end of a line. ¹ An example is a folio by Zayn al-Abidin al-Shirazi (Shiraz, 1483) combining naskh, thuluth and tawqi'. ¹