Critical Evaluation of the Insertion of Vocalization and Diacritics in the Qur’anic Script - Ep 01

Muslim sources are quite unanimous in stating the fact that the text of the earliest masahif was in bare consonantal form – devoid of diacritics (i‘jam) to distinguish homographs and bereft of vowels markings (tashkil or i‘rab) to discern declensions. These can be chronologically divided into the following three: 1. The First Vocalization Phase 2. The Diacritics Phase 3 The Second Vocalization Phase In this episode, Dr Shehzad Saleem describes these phases as detailed out in Muslim sources