Re: Mushaf Al-Haramain

[Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>]

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 19:45, Mete Kural wrote:
> Salaam Mohammed,
>
> From: Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>
> <<Mushaf Al-Haramain (from Al-Shamarly printing house, the very first to
> print the Qur'an which gained a lot of respect from Hoffaaz that they
> call it Omdaat Al-Masahef "The boss of Masaahef. If you must :-") has the
> this written with a SmallAlef as a chair.
> Anyway, the most accurate and correct one (w.r.t Rasm Science) would be
> Mushaf Al-Haramain.
>
>
> You mention that Al-Shamarly printing house is the first to print the
> Qur'an. But you don't mean that Mushaf Al-Haramain is the first Qur'an to
> be printed right? Since obviously Mushaf Al-Haramain is a hand-written
> mushaf which would have to be printed by an offset printer and that
> technology did not exist in early 20th century. So if Mushaf Al-Haramain is
> not the first mushaf to be printed, why do you think it would be the most
> accurate and correct one? Was Mushaf Al-Haramain hand-written many years
> before it was first printed? Was it hand-written before the 1924 Egyptian
> printing of the Qur'an?
>


Well, no.
Mushaf Al-Haramain is just a fancy name that is not important.

What is important is the publishing house itself, it's among the the first 
ones in Egypt (Well, _the_ first if you must) to publish Masahef with that
_scale_.

It used to print Masahef for even Al-Azhar itself.

I'm saying that it would be the most accurate because of the quantity of
respect and recognition this house gets from most Hoffaaz and Islamic
organizations (Even The Qur'an Complex in Saudi Arabia admires this house).

Anyway, I don't know why you quoted me on this unimportant issue. It was
only suggested by me that it _would_ be the most accurate because of the
reasons I gave but not neccessarily _the_ most.

Moreover, any Mushaf that contains the basic Qur'an text using the Othmani
Rasm wouldn't be considered bad and could actually be certified by any
Qur'anic Organization. This is because the original collected Mushaf, after
all, didn't have even dots :-)


-- 
Mohammed Yousif
Egypt

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