Editing Thamud (section)

==Thamudic script==
[[Thamudic]] is an aggregate name for some 15,000 [[Pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions|inscriptions from pre-Islamic Arabia]], which have not yet been properly studied and categorized into their distinct languages.{{sfn|Hoyland|2001|p=254}} The name arose in the nineteenth century, when many people asserted that the Thamud tribe was responsible for the creation of these inscriptions. However, since then, it has become widely accepted among [[Epigraphy|epigraphists]] that there is no evidence justifying a connection between these inscriptions and the tribe of Thamud.{{sfn|Graf|Zwettler|2004|p=56}}{{Sfn|Robin|2010|p=122–123}}