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The Story of Kāf

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The Story of Kāf

The forgotten metamorphosis of an Arabic letter

Joumana Medlej
Feb 23
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The Story of Kāf

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Whether you’re from that part of the world or not, you may be surprised to hear that Arabic users know practically nothing about the history of their treasured script. For reasons too boring to speculate about (politics, religion, indifference), in school we are fed stupid myths and generally given to understand that Arabic writing, and spelling, have …

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