It is not wise to repeat hearsay.
But sometimes we do it nevertheless.
Somewhere I had read that in India the Kufī numbering system
has five more verses than the Egyptian Kufī system ‒
without moving any end of verse (therefore both being Kufī),
just by splitting five long verses.
Adrian Alan Brockett wrote that in the 20th century the differences have been
reduced
‒ without giving chapter and verse.
But here are two places where India used to differ from Arabia:
4:173 and 6:73 were 4:173+4 resp. 6:73+4.
BTW, the Ottomans did not have here an additional end of verse:
added later:
some Indian maṣāḥif had 36:34-35 as 36:34
2:246 and 41:45 can be different in India from Gizeh24 (Brockett p.29)
BHO had both Kufī and Baṣrī, known 100% like "modern" Kufī.
KHO, MNQ, (HR and ar-Rušdi) had exactly the same Kufī numbers as we have today
‒ like Muṣḥaf al-Muḫallalātī and KFE.
Sunday 17 November 2019
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