Tawqi

{{Short description|Calligraphic variety of the Arabic script}}

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Tawqi‘ ({{langx|ar|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.{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-Muqlah#ref199906 |title=Ibn Muqlah |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |accessdate=21 November 2015 |archive-date=22 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122140624/http://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-Muqlah#ref199906 |url-status=live }} The tawqi‘ script was further refined by Ibn al-Bawwab.{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-al-Bawwab#ref67015 |title=Ibn al-Bawwab |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |accessdate=21 November 2015 |archive-date=22 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122124352/http://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-al-Bawwab#ref67015 |url-status=live }}

It was mostly employed in official state papers and documents in the Ottoman Empire, where the script was known as tevki.