Rasm

Rasm (رسم) is an Arabic term that signifies: drawing, sketch, trace, graph, pictures, outline, pattern, mark, notes, design, regulation, form, rate. When speaking of the Qur'an , it stands for the basic text made of the 18 letters without diacritics/ i'jam . The rasm is the oldest part of the Arabic script; it has eighteen elements: However, in both initial medial position, these conflate to fifteen distinct forms, as the differences between ٮ ,ں, and ﯼ; and between ڡ and ٯ are lost. Compare the beginning of the qurʾān with all diacritics and with the rasm only: بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ ٮسم‌الـله‌الرحمں‌الرحٮم or with spaces: ٮسم الـله الر حمں الر حٮم (note that spaces do not occur only between words) Sura 7 (Ala'araf), verses 86 & 87, of the Samarkand Qur'an, written in unadorned rasm. Petersburg shows almost only the rasm.

Rasm ( ) is an Arabic writing script often used in the early centuries of Classical Arabic literature (7th century – early 11th century AD). Essentially it is the same as today's Arabic script except for the big difference that dots and dashes (the i‘jām pointing) are omitted. In rasm , the five distinct letters ـبـ ـتـ ـثـ ـنـ ـيـ are indistinguishable because all the dots are omitted. It is also known as Arabic skeleton script.

Arabic writing script Not to be confused with Rajm . Early written Arabic used only rasm (in black). Later Arabic added i‘jām diacritics (examples in red) so that homographic consonants, for example these five letters ـبـ ـتـ ـثـ ـنـ ـيـ , could be distinguished. Short vowels are indicated by harakat diacritics (examples in blue) which is used in the Qur'an but not in most written Arabic. Rasm ( ) is an Arabic writing script often used in the early centuries of Classical Arabic literature (7th century – early 11th century AD). Essentially it is the same as today's Arabic script except for the big difference that the Arabic diacritics are omitted. These diacritics include i'jam (إِعْجَام, ʾIʿjām), consonant pointing, and tashkil (تَشْكِيل, tashkīl), supplementary diacritics. The latter include the ḥarakāt (حَرَكَات) short vowel marks—singular: ḥarakah (حَرَكَة). As an example, in rasm , the five distinct letters ـبـ ـتـ ـثـ ـنـ ـيـ are indistinguishable because all the dots are omitted. Rasm is also known as Arabic skeleton script.

Arabic writing script Not to be confused with Rajm . Early written Arabic used only rasm (in black). Later Arabic added ʾiʿjām diacritics (examples in red) so that homographic consonants, for example these two letters ص ض , could be distinguished. Short vowels are indicated by harakat diacritics (examples in blue) which is used in the Qur'an but not in most written Arabic. Rasm ( Arabic : رَسْم [ræsm] ) is an Arabic writing script often used in the early centuries of Classical Arabic literature (7th century – early 11th century AD). It is the same as today's Arabic script except for the difference that the Arabic diacritics are omitted. These diacritics include consonant pointing or ʾiʿjām ( إِعْجَام ), and supplementary diacritics or taškīl ( تَشْكِيل ). The latter include the ḥarakāt ( حَرَكَات ) short vowel marks—singular: ḥarakah ( حَرَكَة ). As an example, in rasm , the two distinct letters ص ض are indistinguishable because ʾiʿjām is omitted, or letters similar in shape ک ك may also become indistinguishable if the diacritics are omitted. Rasm is also known as Arabic skeleton script. This concept is somewhat similar to scriptio continua in the Latin script, where all spaces and other punctuations is omitted. The rasm form was common for writing Arabic until the early 2nd millennium.