Ahmed ibn Qassim ar-Rifa'i ar-Ribati

Ahmed ibn Qassim ar-Rifa'i ar-Ribati was a Moroccan calligrapher interested in the reformation and standardization of Maghrebi script.

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. ar-Ribati wrote Stringing the Pearls of the Thread in 1840, which was edited and republished by Muhammad Sabri. The book is in the form of an urjuza of 143 couplets.