""Writing arabic""; ""Copyright & ISBN""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""The Origins of the Arabic Alphabet""; ""The Origins of Writing""; ""Writing in Antiquity""; ""The Beginnings of Arabic Writing""; ""Angular Scripts""; ""The Invention of Paper""; ""The Development of Cursive Writing""; ""The Golden Age of Calligraphy""; ""Cursive Scripts""; ""Numerals""; ""Printing and the Arabic Script""; ""Twenty-first-century Arabic Scripts""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""