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Yeah, I looked at the article expecting to find out about some writing system I hadn't previously known. Oh, it's Ajami? That's hardly news, it's been widely kn
by jfk13 4y ago
Yeah, I looked at the article expecting to find out about some writing system I hadn't previously known. Oh, it's Ajami? That's hardly news, it's been widely known (at least among people with an interest in such things) for a long time. E.g. the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajami_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajami_script page is far from new.
It may well be that they're now unearthing (or paying attention to) specific Ajami documents that have been largely ignored. But the writing system itself isn't that obscure.
- wikithrowwayy 4y agoTo be fair, the article claims that the guy first started working in this area in 2004, which is before the wikipedia article was created. bu.edu isn't trying to say that this is a new discovery this year/decade, it's discussing a particular academic's career. That said, I'm 100% sure that the article is distorting (perhaps radically so) the background here -- these sorts of publications always seem to.
- originalvichy 4y agoYou are seemingly misinterpreting the article and even your Wikipedia link is speaking against you. The person being interviewed in the article started his work between 1996 and 2004, and most source/reference links in the Wikipedia page are from sources after this. Read the article again.