Book of signs

Book of signs

The Guardian
29 Jul 2006

The earliest copies of the Qur’an were written in a script called Kufic Arabic, which had no vowel signs. It was not until the rule of the Umayyad Caliph ’Abd al-Malik (685–705) that the first written version of the Qur’an with diacritics was produced.... read more...