Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Turkey and Syria: Computer Set

Although Turkey has excellent maṣāḥif both based on old and on new manuscripts,
it has the ugliest muṣḥaf that sold well.
In the 1990s Turks not used to Arabic writing liked this:
Now they take a PC set one, like

(I hight­light­ed /fī/ and /fĭ/ and the hamza after a highly re­com­mend­ed pause.)

the last one is published by Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı (Directorate of Religious Affairs).

In Syria in the middle of the civil war the minstry of auqāf published a new standard mushaf:




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