Arabic Script and its Independent Evolution from Islam

I once mentioned that the development of Arabic as a writing script had 

very little, if anything, to do with the evolution of Islam. First off, every 

well-known writing script today came from a common origin. This simply 

means a writing script is a system, and just like every other system can 

only be invented once.

According to the most credible historical records available to us, every
well-known writing script of today originated from the ancient Egyptian 

scripts: the Pictographic Hieroglyphs or Md Ntr, the Phonetic I alphabets 

or Heratic script, and the Phonetic II alphabets or the Demotic script - it's 

even plausible that the ancient Egyptian scripts were derived from distant 

pre-historic antecedents. Even Plato had this to say in his work "The Republic," 

and I paraphrase: of all the the known inventions of the Ethiops, writing was 

probably the most important. Of course in antiquity, the Axumites, Nubians, and 

the Egyptians were collectively referred to as Ethiopians, all from Cusha Dwipa 

without.

Arabic, and perhaps even Hebrew, as writing scripts came out of the

Phonetic II alphabets or the Demotic script of ancient Egypt, which in its 

original form was essentially the Kufic or meroitic script of ancient Sudan. 

Again, the development of Arabic as a writing script has nothing to do with 

the evolution of Islam.

When I re-examined the sequential order of the evolution of writing
itself, contrary to the general assumption, it occurred to me that the 

invention of Phonetic alphabets might be anterior to the invention of 

Pictographic Hieroglyphs or Md Ntr. That is to say, it's plausible that the 

Phonetic alphabets were invented by the priest-class thousands of years 

before the development of the Pictographic Hieroglyphs or Md Ntr. 

But for simplicity, the priests endeavored to invent the Pictographic 

Hieroglyphs for the unlearned masses. Think about it! It is much easier to 

use symbols and Pictographs to transliterate ideas than to use alphabets.

This I consider as to be the reason why Pictographic Hieroglyphs were 

ubiquitous in Ancient Egypt, and why Phonetic alphabets were only used 

on papyri for recording scientific knowledge.

In other words, my contention is that the Phonetic alphabets were first among

the writing scripts to be invented by the priests, perhaps, to record their mystery 

knowledge; while, the Pictographic Hieroglyphs were developed much later to 

convey this knowledge in a simplistic way to the masses - the Rosetta stone was 

probably built for this purpose.

All in all, the fact that Arabic is found in some ancient texts for recording 

scientific knowledge does not mean that the author(s) of these texts were 

Muslims or even Arabs. It just means that Arabic was a preferred script at 

that time. We've seen Pre-Islamic-Egyptian medical papyri with what looks 

like the Arabic script, and we've also seen Christian texts that were written, 

mostly, in Arabic. So contrary to the general assumption, Arabic and Islam 

are not synonymous!

References:

Molefi, Asante: “African Intellectual Heritage – a book of sources.” (1996)

Anta, Diop: “Civilization or Barbarism.” (1991)

Martin Bernal: “Black Athena – vol I.” (1987)

Walter, Williams: “The Historical Origin of Islam.” (2001)

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