Muhaqqaq

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Qur'anic manuscript written in Muhaqqaq script
Qur'anic manuscript written in Muhaqqaq script

Muhaqqaq is a type of calligraphic script in Arabic derived from Thuluth by widening the horizontal sections of the letters in the Thuluth script.

It was abandoned after the 16th century and only a very few panels and a number of Besmeles in Hilyes describing the virtues and qualities of Muhammad are to be found written in this script.