The first best selling print was St.Petersburg-Kazan:
Next came "the
Flügel"
published 1834 in Leipzig by the publishing house Tauchnitz, which pirated it in
1837 with an edition officially by Gustav Redslob,
but basicly the Flügel without paying him:
both were bestsellers but only among orientalists.
By that time, both in Iran and India printing
maṣāḥif had began,
but only after 1865 they were mass produced, and affordable.
Since they were even sold in the Ottoman empire, the ban against printing
the scripture was lifted: So
maṣāḥif written by
Hafiz Osman and Muṣṭafā Naẓīf Qadirġalī
became best selling in Istanbul, Syria and Egypt.
here one of several MNQ from Tehran
The important editions by
Muḫallalātī and
al-Ḥusainī al-Ḥaddād (HH) did not sell well ‒ the KFE at least
not to Egyptians; they prefered the 522 pages written by Muṣṭafā Naẓīf Qadirġalī ‒
now often in the reform /Andalusian/ HH orthography, but at least until 1967
in new editions in the original Ottoman spelling.
on the left from a 1981 MNQ Cairo edition on 522 pages, on the right the original:
a MZQ from Bairut
The top seller in Egypt was a line by line copy of the MNQ 522pager written
by
Muḥammad Saʿd Ibrāhīm al-Ḥaddād famous under the name of
the publisher: aš-Šamarlī.
What is mostly ignored: Šamarlī published MNQ in the new orthography even in the 1960s:
The government press, al-Amīriyya, tried to compete: in 1976 they produced
a type set version with 15 lines on 525 pages. For more than a decade they
made at least four different sizes: from small in flexibel plastic to Mosque size.
on the left from the pocket version 1977, on the right the normal one
the large Qaṭarī reprint 1988
Although the KFE was almost only sold to oritentalists,
in the seventies many publisher "remade" it on there light tables (layout tables):
the cut films they had made of the 12 liner and rearranged them:
either just more lines on a page as was first done around 1933 in the "muṣḥaf al-malik"
al-maṭbʿa al-miṣiriyya (Muḥammad Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Laṭīf) printed in offset I assume:
die rechte Seite bekam immer einen Kustoden. Gelegentlich wurde eine Schmuckzeile ein gefügt, damit eine Sure auf einer neuen Seite anfangen kann.
Der Verleger hat zu seinem neu umbrochenen und neu gerahmten auch einen
Tafsīr veröffentlicht:
Dār aš-Šurūq:
or more and longer lines:
some editions with tafsir keep the original pages
other rearange the text
None of these were best sellers,
but combined they spread the new spelling
in spite of the KFE being extremely unpopular.
Now in the Arab world and Malaysia ʿUṯmān Ṭaha versions dominate.
In India and Bangla Desh reprints of Tāj Comp. Ltd versions can be found everywhere,
while in Pakistan there is fierce competion.
In South Africa Taj's 848 pages 13liner dominates, although the latest version of WII (Waterval Islamic Institute)
is set in a UT like font.
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