Quote from: Noon waalqalami on October 10, 2018, 12:08:15 AM
Peace, depends on the time-frame since all scripts evolve with basic dots then vocal marks, etc.
1. The grammar and diacritics were added by :
Ibn Abi Ishaq - died AD 735 / AH 117 - how many years after the supposed revelation of the Quran?
This means early Quranic palimsets were not even diacritized in accordance with modern grammar rules, which emerged in 8th century. but were simply vowelized as they saw fit by that time.
2. Birmingham and Saan'a manuscripts were radiocarbonnaly dated to 585-633, which is a high probabily Quran was available LONG before any Arabic language even existed.
3. PERF588 has nothing to do with the Qur'an and belongs to the end of the first half of the 7th century, when according to common history these letters were added in the so called Arabic calligraphy, taken from Old South Arabic, in which PERF588 takes its written tradition.
4. There is no indication and instead quite a varity of factors which tell Quran originated in Petrea region, where Nabbatean language was dominating, i..e pure abjad with 22 letters;
5. Again, The schools of Basra and Kufa further developed grammatical rules in the late 8th century with the rapid rise of Islam.
6. There are no dots in the Bigmingham copy. Black dots are seen unnaturally small, which looks more like a scholarly test, rather than a decicive vowelization, and red dots were obviously added later, something both me and people stuyding the palimset agree with;
7. Quran mentions Allat and AlUzza, the goddesses which were worshipped in Assyria and Petrea, but not the Southern Arabia;
8. Quran itself is a vast body of religious literature which is unlikely to pop out of the bedouin hellhole called South Arabia;
9. 6 additional letters were added to modern Arabic calligraphy as far as the first half of the 7th century, yet they were available before in Old South Arabic, however,
10. Arabic alphabet evolved either from the Nabataean,[1][2] or (less widely believed) directly from the Syriac.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Arabic_alphabet#OriginsThat means that the 22 letters of the ABJAD order did not include 6-7 additional of the Old South Arabic, and were added as close as the first half of the 7th century, which is
already past the point when Quran was available.
