Scholarly record
ARABOGRAPHIC TEXTS IN TIME AND SPACE
Abstract
Classical African and Asian studies consider the text as the core and the main object of scholar research and take into consideration both the socio-historical context that influenced its formation and the content of the document under consideration. In the case of Arabic scholars deal with a linguistic continuum that has existed for more than 14 centuries. The system of the Arabic script existed as early as in the sixth century AD. The codification of the Qur??n played a crucial role in the evolution of the Arabic alphabet when special signs for diacritics and vowels were introduced. The spread of the Arabic script beyond the borders of the Arabian Peninsula went simultaneously with the spread of Islam and formation of the caliphate when local types of writing in the territories of Africa, Asia and Europe (Greek, Aramaic, Pahlavi scripts, etc.) were replaced by Arabic. The Arabic script itself was perceived at that time as a symbol of affiliation with Islam, and Muslim cultural and historical traditions. For centuries the Arabic writing had been represented by handwritten manuscripts and initially books in Arabic, including the Qur??n, were printed in Italy and Granada at the end of the 15th - the beginning of the 16th centuries AD and only then in the Muslim world - in the printing houses of Cairo, Tehran and Tabriz. In the Ottoman Empire, and later in the Republic of Turkey Arabographic texts had been in use until 1928. In Russia and USSR Romanization of the Arabic alphabets of national languages in Volga region and the Caucasus took place in 1927. Nowadays Arabographic texts are on the one hand an object of cultural and historical heritage, on the other - an important element of the development of modern civilization.
Publication Impact Profile
Publication details
References13
Miles G.C., Early Islamic inscriptions Near Ṭāʾif and Ḥijāz, Journal of Near Eastern Studies. vol. 7, 1948, pp 236-242.
Al‐Said S.F., Early South Arabian-Islamic Bilingual Inscription From Najran, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, vol. 15, 2004, pp 84–88.
Khan G., Bills, Letters and Deeds: Arabic Papyri of the 7th to 11th Centuries, Oxford, 1993.
Maraqten M., Writing Materials in Pre-Islamic Arabia, Journal of Semitic Studies, vol. 43, no. 2, 1998, pp 287-310.
http://corpus.quran.com
McDonald M.V., Orally Transmitted Poetry In Pre-Islamic Arabia and Other Pre-Literate Societies, Journal of Arabic Literature, vol. 9, 1978, pp 14-31.
Schoeler G., The Codification of Qurʾān : A Comment on the Hypotheses of Burton and Wansbrough, The Qurʾān in Context - Historical and Literary Investigations, Leiden, 2010, pp 779-794.
Bolshakov O.G., Istoriya Halifata, vol. 1., Islam v Aravii (570-633), Moscow, 1989, pp 32-33.
Mumin M., Versteegh K., (eds.), The Arabic Script in Africa: Studies in the Use of a Writing System, Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Leiden, 2014.
López-Baralt L., The Secret Literature of the Last Muslims of Spain, Islamic Studies, vol. 36, no. 1,1997, pp 21-37, p 23.
Bolshakov O.G., Istoriya Halifata, vol. 1, Islam v Aravii (570-633), Moscow, 1989,p 37.
Boyacioğlu F., The Historical Development Of The Foreign Language Education in Ottoman Empire, Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 174, 2015, pp 651 – 657, p 651.
Boyacioğlu F., The Historical Development of the Foreign Language Education in Ottoman Empire, Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 174, 2015, pp 651 – 657, pp 651-652.
View or Download full articleAccess options
SWS access login
Login as SWS Scientific CommitteeLogin as SWS Scientific PartnerLogin as SWS AuthorAuthors and approved SWS contributors will read and export their own linked papers after identity matching by SWS profile, email and SGEM GlobalID.
For librarian assistance: [email protected]
Purchase Instant Access
- Article can be downloaded after successful payment.
- Article may be used according to SWS library access terms.
- Article cannot be redistributed.
