The mysterious pre -Islamic Arabic script was understood
Breakthrough crashes the ancient Dhufari script
Nathan Stein Mayor
August 01, 2025
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A pre -Islamic dhoofi 1 Absadri. Courtesy al -Jalid.
In the deserts of Oman and Yemen, the treasure of ancient shelly can be found in the Arabic script before Islam. One of them is also a secret script known as Dhovafri 1, known as Dhofer, named after the Dhofer region where it is commonly found. At the age of 2,000, the script provides the opportunity to open a new chapter in the history of South Arabia before Islam. The only problem is that since its discovery in the early 20th century, no one was able to understand it despite the similarity of its several letters for the region’s known script. It changed when the Chair of Arabic Studies at Ohio State University suddenly realized.
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Deciding before Islam’s script
Along with the Dhov 1 script, the relevant wash 2 scripts, paint have been found on the walls of the cave, and the valley has been erected in the valley stones and loose rocks across the desert of the South Arabian Peninsula. The script began around the end of the first thousand BC, and its use had ended before the spread of Islam in the seventh century. Since then, this has been unacceptable. According to Alglaid, in communication Bible History daily“Since the script was made uncertain, he gave himself to wild ideas. Some linked it to the AD tribe, which is one of the ‘extinct’ Arab tribes mentioned in the Quran.” Perhaps now, the scholars will eventually go to the bottom of the script and many questions around the culture that arises.
Aliglade presented his decisive progress in the journal Jarberchcht Ex -Orient Lux. It was a breakthrough that had been under the nose of scholars for decades: Dhovi did not record three words out of the three shillel, but the dhovari alphabet.
In examining a number of Dhofi 1, Algerald found that there were more than 20 separate characters in the three without repetition. Given the length of the refusal, it would be extremely unexpected if the words were recorded in the text. But if they recorded the alphabet, it would be what you would expect. Seeing the three Shalulis as an Abbedidry (list of letters in the alphabetical order), Algerald managed to compare them with other Arabic scripts before Islam, when it comes to similarities between 1 letter and other languages. The same shaped letters understood as the same sounds, it became clear that Dhovi was 1 Absidri HaraamS, a name in which several pre -Islamic alphabet are in accordance with the order of the first four letters, as the ABC is named after the first three letters of the English alphabet.

Reading a Dhov 1 Read, “Hḍ offered a SIMS.” Courtesy King and McDonald; CC via
Although Dhovi 1 Abyderry does not always follow her Haraam The order, overall correspondence, enabled the reading identification for all other uncertain posts, which broke the Code of Conduct. Suddenly, scholars could read a thousand -year -old old script. The language of Dhov 1 has many similarities with other Arabic languages and scripts before Islam. Despite being found in southern Arabia, it may be a descendant or close relative of the North Arab Thomodic B -script, which is found in northwestern Arabs as well as Syria, Egypt and even Yemen. Dhov 1 is similarly commonly common with modern Arabic language, which is mainly spoken in Oman and Yemen, almost the same areas where Dhufari 1 is found.
According to Algeria, “We have a new written page in the history of Arabia before Islam! Already the writings give us a window of a language and culture that the historians of the Islamic term of this period forget the eighth and ninth centuries of history.” Many dhovs have short prayers in 1 refreshment and were potentially used for autobropic purposes. However, other logs record only names. There are many ancient graft recording comments, such as, “I was here.”
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