Thursday, 7 September 2023

Bombay with a difference

In the middle of the 20th century Bombay publishers did not only print maṣāḥif for the subcontinent, for Indonesia, but for Central Asia as well (1375/1956):

Categorization of <i>maṣāḥif</i> ‒ spelling

I look at muṣḥaf -printing (and seldom muṣḥaf -writing before) worldwide. So one of my interests are features to differentiate: reading, t...