The effect of the Qur’an script on conventional writing

Abstract

The impact of the Holy Qur’an on the Arabic sciences, its origin, preservation, and spread, is not hidden, including: the science of writing. Although the Holy Qur’an was written - in general - according to the writing system prevailing at that time in the Hijaz and the northern part of the peninsula, it was distinguished from this system by a number of characteristics and differences, which are due to the fact that the script of the Qur’an is pamphlet-based, not conventional. Which made it an independent script in itself, and these characteristics had an impact on Arabic writing and in determining its rules. The script of the Qur’an was followed in a number of issues, even though it contradicted the written standards established by scholars. Some standards were also based on the script of the Qur’an, so the script of the Qur’an was one of the sources of the science of writing.

This research is concerned with tracking down individual issues in which the script of the Qur’an was followed in conventional writing, and the scholars stipulated that in them, whether in drawing or in writing. It deals with them with description and analysis, traces their history and the trends of their development over time, and the disagreement of scholars regarding them, and attempts to deduce the scholars’ approach to that. .

The research demonstrated that there is a close relationship between the Qur'anic script and the standard script, and that the Qur'anic script plays an important role and has a significant impact on establishing the rules of writing, both in script and punctuation. It also demonstrated that adherence to the Qur'anic script was more prevalent among early scholars than among later scholars, due to the fact that writing, in its development, tends toward conformity between spoken and written forms. The research also demonstrated that adherence to the Qur'anic script was not uniform in terms of agreement and disagreement, and that all issues in which the Qur'anic script was followed a single direction: that it existed in the past and then disappeared—if it disappeared at all—not the other way around. It also demonstrated that there is no clear standard for issues in which adherence to the Qur'anic script was stipulated, in addition to other findings that were explained at the end of the research.