Editor of the French Version: Anne-Marie Christine, Editor of Arabic Version: Dr. Khaled Azab. Translators: Dr. Isahaq Ebeid, Dr. Kassem Abdo Kassem, Dr. Mohamed Abdul Ghani and others.
This magnificent volume deals with all the systems of writing all over the world from ancient to modern times.
Each chapter contains a peculiar region of the world and sheds favorable lights on the various elements which played roles in the creation of its culture and writing. Among such elements are the customs and traditions of the native populations, the surviving antiquities of the era in question, and the intellectual activities of the time. The work as a whole highlights the process of the creation and evolution of the various languages and writing-systems, explaining how the sentences were formed in each language together with the rules of grammar that make sense of such sentences. It also traces the steps of the decipherment of some of the ancient languages that remained obscure and enigmatic for a long time. The book is published in Arabic language.