Examining the Rules of Rasm of Al-Masahif and Its Controversial Cases

The subject of “Rasm al-Musaf and the rules of Masahif” is one of the important topics of Quranic sciences, which has led to various opinions of many thinkers; Although some aspects of the rules and writing and their relationship with related sciences have been explained to some extent, many of the thoughts of the thinkers of Quranic sciences have not yet been adequately investigated. In this article, an attempt has been made to examine some of the writings and rules of Masahif at the beginning of Islam; including the subject of Ottoman script, its origin, development and many problems in its recitation in the field of recitation studies carried faced new challenges, which has created new issues for not only beginners but also for Muslim scholars and Orientalists who study the Quran. Some scholars consider this type of calligraphy a success and condemn its neglect of it. In the current research, with a descriptive-analytical method, while examining and analyzing the theory of the Ottoman script being restricted, the opposition of this script with the common script in the Quran in six areas and extents, addition, elision, hamzah, alteration, separation and connection, and finally its existence in the type of recitation in some of the words of the Quran have been analyzed.