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2006-11-21 14:00:01 · 11 answers · asked by Emily rose 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
No.
the Alphabet predates Islam by about 1400 years.
and the Arabic alphabet is entirely different from the Roman alphabet that this was typed in.
2006-11-21 14:06:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thank you for this question. Although I knew our alphabet started long before Islam was founded, I did not know the history. Although the Islamic faith did not create our alphabet, the people of the Middle East (Semites) did contribute to the formation of the alphabet.
ISLAM
". . .Muslims believe that the verses of the Qur'an were revealed to Muhammad by God through the Angel Gabriel on numerous occasions between the years 610 and up till his death on JULY 6, 632."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam
". . .The history of the alphabet starts in ancient Egypt. By 2700 BCE Egyptian writing had a set of some 22 hieroglyphs to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel (or no vowel) to be supplied by the native speaker. These glyphs were used as pronunciation guides for logograms, to write grammatical inflections, and, later, to transcribe loan words and foreign names.
However, although seemingly alphabetic in nature, the original Egyptian uniliterals were not a system and were never used by themselves to encode Egyptian speech. In the Middle Bronze Age an apparently "alphabetic" system is thought by some to have been developed in central Egypt around 1700 BCE for or by Semitic workers, but we cannot read these early writings and their exact nature remain open to interpretation.
Over the next five centuries this SEMITIC "alphabet" (really an abjad like Phoenician writing) seems to have spread north. All subsequent alphabets around the world with the sole possible exception of Korean Hangul have either descended from it, or been inspired by one of its descendants."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet
This next link shows how our current alphabet evolved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet
FYI: ARABIC NUMBERALS You may find this article interesting as our numerals began with Buddism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
2006-11-21 22:42:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our alphabet began in Phoenecia, then was adapted by the Greeks, and then adapted by the Romans. Our alphabet, with exception of the letter 'J' was already in place long before the Muslims came along.
2006-11-21 22:15:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No but they created our number system.
Muslims in general use the Arabic alphabet, which is an old alphabet (about as old, or older than latin and greek).
Arabic and English are derived from the same OLD, OLD languages, but neither comes directly from the other.
They share many words though.
Good luck, Peace.
2006-11-21 22:09:12 · answer #4 · answered by husam 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, you are likely confusing the alphabet with our numbering system. We do use Arabic numerals.
2006-11-21 22:37:26 · answer #5 · answered by blakenyp 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i cannot believe that no one knows that our alphabet comes from the Greeks !
2006-11-22 01:17:49 · answer #6 · answered by pricebazoo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Our alphabet is mostly latin.
Our numbers are muslim.
2006-11-21 22:13:12 · answer #7 · answered by Balvanera 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. I think the ancient romans made it. Then the greeks modified it. Then we modified it.
2006-11-21 22:06:17 · answer #8 · answered by Squishy 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
what a foolish question! "even the inventions and
discoveries of future are in the koran"-this will be the pretencions of some of them!
2006-11-21 22:11:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
no
2006-11-21 22:35:41 · answer #10 · answered by gone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋