* By: Zaid Saleh Al-Faqih

There is no doubt that the human cognitive accumulation has led to the arrival of contemporary humans to the peak of printing technology in this era. However, our arrival to this stage of progress was gradual across successive eras of knowledge. Researchers agree that the Canaanites who migrated from the Arabian Peninsula in the early second millennium BC and settled in Palestine were the first to use alphabetical characters in writing. The oldest documents written in the Arabic language date back to the last three centuries before the birth of Christ (AS): they were found in the village of Al-Faw. These documents were written in the South Arabian alphabet and adhered to the Sabaean spelling rules, the language of the Kingdom of Sheba in Yemen. Then this process developed across different eras and at varying levels. Islam arrived while only a few men and women among the Arabs knew how to write. Thus the years passed, and as Islam spread, the need for writing increased to record the Quran and the Hadith and for administration.