Arabic-L:GEN:Dutch Role in Arabic Printing

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Date: 11 Jan 2012
From:Thomas Milo <tmilo at decotype.com>
Subject:Dutch Role in Arabic Printing

Eurabic vs Arabic
A talk about the Dutch Role in Middle Eastern Arabic printing, in
Reykjavik, during the ATypI Conference last October is now posted by
river-valley.tv:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lJsfUQ-qqw

Summary:

Western scholars of Islam have a tradition of writing and printing
Arabic in a mixture of styles enriched with fantasy constructions.
This produced a new kind of script, Eurabic, while in the Middle East
typography for Islamic scripts only gained wide acceptance following
Ohannis Mühendisoğlu’s successful adhering to Arabic script grammar
with stylistic consistency. In the 20th century, superior Western
technology was exclusively geared to Eurabic, and as a result it
gained a powerful foothold in the Middle Eastern market. Computer
technology adapted Eurabic rather than Arabic, which led to a sudden
prominence of Eurabic to the detriment of Arabic.  Eurabic script is
now well-established and can be considered almost a separate branch in
the family of Semitic scripts. As the demand for script grammar-driven
Arabic remains, technical support for it on the computing platform is
growing steadily. As a result Arabic and Eurabic now exist side by
side.

Thomas Milo
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