Rasm

diacritics (examples in blue) which is used in the Qur'an but not in most written Arabic. Rasm ( ) is an Arabic writing script often used in the early centuries of Classical Arabic literature (7th century early 11th century AD). It is the same as today's Arabic script except for the difference that the Arabic diacritics are omitted. These diacritics include consonant pointing or ( ), and supplementary diacritics or ( ). The latter include the ( ) short vowel marks—singular: ( ). As an example, in rasm, the two distinct letters are indistinguishable because is omitted, or letters similar in shape may also become indistinguishable if the diacritics are omitted. Rasm is also known as Arabic skeleton script. This concept is somewhat similar to scriptio continua in the Latin script, where all spaces and other punctuations is omitted. The rasm form was common for writing Arabic until the early 2nd millennium.

diacritics (examples in blue) which is used in the Qur'an but not in most written Arabic.]] Rasm ( ) is an Arabic writing script often used in the early centuries of Classical Arabic literature (7th century early 11th century AD). It is the same as today's Arabic script except for the difference that the Arabic diacritics are omitted. These diacritics include consonant pointing or ( ), and supplementary diacritics or ( ). The latter include the ( ) short vowel marks—singular: ( ). As an example, in rasm, the two distinct letters are indistinguishable because is omitted, or letters similar in shape may also become indistinguishable if the diacritics are omitted. Rasm is also known as Arabic skeleton script. This concept is somewhat similar to scriptio continua in the Latin script, where all spaces and other punctuations is omitted. The rasm form was common for writing Arabic until the early 2nd millennium. ==Examples== Among the historical examples of rasm script are the Kufic Blue Qur'an and the Samarkand Qurʾan. The latter is written almost entirely in Kufic rasm. The following is an example of rasm from Surah Al-A'raf (7), āyah 86 and 87, in the Samarkand Qur'an, and its digital equivalent rasm, rasm with normal spacing, and then fully vocalized with all diacretics: ===Examples of Common Phrases=== ==See also== Kufic Abjad numerals History of the Arabic alphabet Qiraʾat Scriptio continua, an analogous concept in the Latin script where all spaces and other punctuations is omitted. Decimal separator Modern Arabic mathematical notation Book Pahlavi, an Iranian script with similar graphemic convergence. ==References== ==External links== Some pages from the famous Saint Petersburg-Samerkand-Tashkent Koran. The fourth to seventh images are written in the Kufic script A page in the earliest script , known as ma'il

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