The taʿlīq () script is a style in

Islamic calligraphy Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy, in the languages which use Arabic alphabet or the alphabets derived from it. It includes Arabic, Persian, Ottoman, and Urdu calligraphy.Chapman, Caroline (2012). '' ...

designed specifically to satisfy the needs of the

Persian language Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and ...

. It emerged in the mid-13th century from gradual changes in the '' naskh'' style, and also incorporated influences from '' riqa'' and ''

tawqi ''Tawqi‘'' ( ar-at, التوقيع, al-tawqī‘) is a calligraphic variety of the Arabic script. It is a modified and smaller version of the ''thuluth'' script. Both scripts were developed by Ibn Muqlah. The ''tawqi‘'' script was further ref ...

.'' It was widely used, especially in

Persianate societies A Persianate society is a society that is based on or strongly influenced by the Persian language, culture, literature, art and/or identity. The term "Persianate" is a neologism credited to Marshall Hodgson. In his 1974 book, ''The Venture of Is ...

, until being replaced by the

Nastaliq ''Nastaliq'' (; fa, , ), also romanized as ''Nastaʿlīq'', is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script in the Persian and Urdu languages, often used also for Ottoman Turkish poetry, rarely for Arabic. ''Nast ...

script, itself a derivative of ta'liq. Taʿlīq is also generally used as the name for the Nastaliq script in the Turkish language and often in the Arabic language.

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