Moroccan calligrapher
Ahmed ibn Qassim ar-Rifa'i ar-Ribati (Arabic: أحمد بن قاسم الرفاعي الرباطي) was a Moroccan calligrapher interested in the reformation and standardization of Maghrebi script.[1]
While Arabic calligraphy had undergone standardization and reform in the Mashriq under Ibn Muqla and Ibn al-Bawwab, it hadn't done so in the Maghreb.[2] ar-Ribati wrote Stringing the Pearls of the Thread (نظم لآلئ السمط في حسن تقويم بديع الخط) in 1840, which was edited and republished by Muhammad Sabri.[3] The book is in the form of an urjuza of 143 couplets.[4]
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