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{{Short description|Writing art of the Persian language}}
{{Calligraphy}}
'''Persian calligraphy''' or '''Iranian calligraphy''' ({{lang-fa|{{Nastaliq|خوشنِویسیِ ایرانی}}|translit=Xošnevisi-ye Irani
==History==
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===History of Nasta'liq===
After the [[Muslim conquest of Persia|introduction of Islam]] in the 7th century, Persians adapted the Arabic alphabet to [[Persian language|Persian]] and developed the contemporary [[Persian alphabet]]. The Arabic alphabet has 28 characters. An additional four letters were added by Iranians,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=|title=History - Persian Calligraphy- All about Persian Calligraphy|url=http://www.persiancalligraphy.org/History-of-Calligraphy.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904062040/http://www.persiancalligraphy.org/History-of-Calligraphy.html|archive-date=2015-09-04|access-date=2021-03-17|website=persiancalligraphy.org}}</ref> which resulted in the 32 letters currently present in the Persian alphabet.
Around one thousand years ago, [[Ibn Muqlah]] ({{lang-fa|{{Nastaliq|ابنِ مقله بيضاوی شيرازی}}}}) and his brother created six genres of Iranian calligraphy, namely "[[Muhaqqaq|Mohaqiq]]", "[[Rayhani script|Reyhan]]", "[[Thuluth|Sols]]", "[[Naskh (script)|Naskh]]", "[[Tawqi|Toqi]]" and "[[Reqa]]". These genres were common for four centuries in Persia. In the 7th century (Hijri calendar), Hassan Farsi Kateb combined the "Naskh" and "Reqa" styles and invented a new genre of Persian calligraphy named "[[Ta'liq (script)|Ta'liq]]". In the 14th century, Mir Ali Tabrizi combined two major scripts of his time, i.e. Naskh and Taliq, and created a new Persian calligraphic style called "Nas’taliq".<ref name=":0" /> In the past 500 years [[Nastaʿlīq]] (also anglicized as Nastaleeq; {{lang-fa|{{Nastaliq|نستعلیق}}}} ''{{transliteration|fa|nastaʿlīq}}'') has been the predominant style for writing the [[Perso-Arabic script]].
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