Re: Mushaf Al-Haramain

[Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>]

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 20:29, Mete Kural wrote:
> Basically, I'm trying to understand whether the Al-Shamarly printing house
> actually printed the Qur'an before the - also Egyptian - Bulaq printing
> house printed the Qur'an. Bulaq printed the Qur'an in 1924, which the
> QuranComplex edition pretty much is identical with. Did Al-Shamarly print a
> Qur'an before 1924? As far as I know, the 1924 printing by Bulaq was the
> result of a substantial project sponsored by King Fu'ad to correct rasm
> errors that crept into Qur'an masahif during the Ottoman era and before to
> the original masahif rasm. As far as I observe they did not go all the way
> to correct all rasm errors and I don't know why they removed many alefs
> (and replaced them with small alef) but still left certain other alefs
> intact, even though they also do not exist in the oldest masahif. Anyways,
> I was just curious whether they copied some things from a previous printing
> by the Al-Shamarly printing house and that's why I asked whether
> Al-Shamarly printed  the Qur'an before 1924 or not? If so, can you send me
> some more scans from this first printing made by Al-Shamarly so that I can
> compare it with the Bulaq printing?
>

hmm, this is interesting.
I really don't know if Al-Shamarly did print the Qur'an before 1924 or not but
I highly doubt that. I don't think this house is that old (not sure though).
My copy from Al-Shamarly is "comparatively" new (dated to 1979 I think).
It was drawn by the popular calligrapher Mohammed Saad Ibrahim (Haddad). He
did that before Othman Taha (another popular calligrapher) drew the too
popular Madinah Mushaf that is printed now by the Qur'an Complex.



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Mohammed Yousif
Egypt

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