A. Mahmoud-Mukadam2024-04-142024-04-14202123607750https://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/11816The writing is considered as using of the hand and fingers, in restricting the human touches, and immortalizing what breasts keep of science and ideas. Writing was not known in the form that is customary at this time. Rather, it passed through stages, including the pictorial stage, the symbolic stage, then the phonetic or syllabic stage, until it ended in the alphabetical stage. And the Arabic writing did not know - at first sight - any point difference that distinguished between similar letters, and the Arabs used to read it correctly without error, melody or correction! And the matter remained so until the mestizos and non-Muslims entered Islam, so they became melodious in reading, and made mistakes in the correct pronunciation, so the situation needed the point-pointing grammar; To raise the thumb and confusion between similar letters, then to plastic diction to give the parts of speech what suits them according to its syntactic positions. The sayings differed in the origin of the writing and how it began. That is because God Almighty has deposited the powers of writing in the human structure. Among them are those who said that it was a human invention that was guided to it. To perpetuate his mind and restrict his ideas. The importance of this article lies in revealing the originality of writing and how it developed from several stages until it ends to the current situation. Keywords; writing; originality; development; Arabic penmanshipotheroriginationdevelopmentarabicpenmanshipArticle