History of the Arabic alphabet - Article Index

Encyclopedia - History Of The Arabic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Arabic Alphabet - Pre-islamic Arabic Inscriptions
A fair number of Arabian inscriptions survive from the pre-Islamic era, but, very few are in the Arabic alphabet. Some are in the Arabic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arabic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Arabic Alphabet - Presentation Of The Alphabet
The following table provides all of the Unicode characters for Arabic, and none of the supplementary letters used for other languages. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arabic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Arabic Alphabet - Structure Of The Arabic Alphabet
The Arabic alphabet is written from right to left and is composed of 28 basic letters. Adaptations of the script for other languages such...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arabic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Arabic Alphabet - Arabic Alphabets Of Other Languages
Arabic script has been adopted for use in a wide variety of languages other than Arabic, including Persian, Kurdish, Malay and Urdu. Such...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arabic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Arabic Alphabet - Computers And The Arabic Alphabet
The Arabic alphabet can be encoded using several character sets, including ISO-8859-6 and Unicode, in the latter thanks to the "Arabic se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arabic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Arabic Alphabet - Numerals
There are two kinds of numerals used in Arabic writing; standard numerals and "East Arab" numerals, used in Iran, Pakistan and India. In ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arabic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Arabic Alphabet - History
The Arabic alphabet can be traced back to the Nabatean alphabet used to write the Nabataean dialect of Aramaic, itself descended from Pho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Arabic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Arabic Alphabet - Reorganization Of The Alphabet
Less than a century later, Arab grammarians reorganized the alphabet, for reasons of teaching, putting letters next to other letters whic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Arabic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Arabic Alphabet - Early Islamic Changes
In the 7th century AD, the Arabic alphabet is attested in its classical form. See PERF 558 for the first surviving Islamic Arabic writing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Arabic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Arabic Alphabet - Origins
The Arabic alphabet evolved either from the Nabataean, or (less widely believed) from the Syriac. This table shows changes undergone by t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Arabic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Arabic Alphabet - An Innovating Alphabet
The Arabic alphabet's alphabetical order is different from in the Phoenician, Hebrew, Syriac, and Greek alphabets:- (Greek waw = digamma)...   » Read the article