Point taken. Thanks. t
Abdulhaq Lynch wrote: > On Thursday 23 June 2005 07:15, Thomas Milo wrote: >>> If you are talking about those like yourself and myself, i.e. >>> interested in arabic and the quran, then I should say that a few >>> days spent learning the basics of tajweed would provide enormous >>> benefit to them in terms of understanding the symbols they're >>> looking at. This applies to arabs and non-arabs alike. >> >> Are you saying: "forget linguistic analysis, the Arab (Persian!) >> scholars worked everything out already?" >> > > No, in fact I'd be very interested to hear what new material there > was. However, we're talking here about encoding the quran, and as > indicated, we're only encoding the information that has already been > encoded. > > The information that is already encoded is the textual data + the > pronounciation guides of the tajweed indicators. > > Therefore to ignore the tajweed marks and try and replace them with > something else (whatever language/science that would be sourced from > including modern arabic linguistics) would be to throw out the > semantics of the current encoding. Remember, the current purpose (in > this forum) of encoding the quran is to encode what we have in our > hands, that is entirely based on previous and long-standing > scholarship (from around 233hijri or 1200 years ago, and yes many of > them were from Persia - Baghdad, Basra etc.) This is the best > information we have as to how the quran was actually pronounced by > the prophet (pbuh) and his companions. The chances of the muslims > abandoning that information, which is trusted, for something deduced > from speculation by modern sources, is so close to zero as to > negligible. > > If Gregg reads this then perhaps he could indicate some of the more > advanced and ground-breaking work that is going on in modern study in > respect of the pronounciation of the quran - I would genuinely be > very interested. > > wassalaam > abdulhaq > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
