Pre-Uthman Quran Found in England

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I'm interested to know about the history of Arabic myself now. In particular, I've seen conflicting comments about the use of diacritical marks in Arabic on YouTube. I'm concerned there could be people willfully lying about the evolution of the Arabic script.

Even a layman can easily see Kufic Script has no diacritical markings and those marks are what help to give Arabic words their meaning. Without them, the words are much more "flexible". Perhaps that's where the seven Ahruf (or however you spell it) come in? Anyhow, if anyone has any interesting links or books then I'd love to see them.

Maybe I should have posted a new topic?

The thing is that the early Arabs were mostly an oral people, so they didn't need the extra visual aids to properly read the Quran. They knew how to pronounce the words just by looking at the letters.

The Quran also used to be recited in seven different "modes" or "dialects," which are called "ahruf." Since the Quran originally had no diacritical marks, the Arabs had the freedom to recite the Quran according to their own dialect/ahruf and that's why they decided to just leave it like that.

However, when copies of the Quran began to spread to other parts of the world, it became necessary to add the diacritical marks in order to make pronunciation easier for others, and to unite everyone under a single dialect, which is classical Arabic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Arabic

But the earliest Arabs did not require the vowel signs and diacritical marks in the Quran because they were able to read it correctly even without the marks.

I will see if can post more details or links on this subject.