Rasm

Quran from the 7th century without any diacritical marks

Rasm ( Arabic رسم' DMG rasm  ' Spur, Bild ') is an Arabic word or a letter without diacritical marks , as was common in early Islam .

The Rasm only knows 18 letters and no vowel symbols , and the Hamza is still missing. Later many letters were marked with dots to make them less ambiguous or ambiguous. In the Rasm a distinction cannot be made between r and z , nor between d and dh , and in the initial and middle positions there is only one sign for b , t , th , n and y , and at the end there are three.

The diacritical points result in 28 letters. It was not until the 10th century that the rasm was regularly provided with the distinguishing points in ordinary texts and with vowel signs in the Koran . The rasm is not only the early form of the Arabic script ; it is still in every document.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adam Gacek: The Arabic manuscript tradition. A Glossary of Technical Terms & Bibliography. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Volume 58). P. 55. Brill, Leiden 2001
2. ^ Norbert G. Pressburg: Good Bye Mohammed. The new image of Islam. Norderstedt 2012, pages 27-51: The book in which olive oil is: The Koran of the Sciences