Thursday, 13 March 2025

الن vs. ان لن

There are many false assertions about the King Fuʾād Edition:
that it is type printed ‒ it is type set, but offset printed
that it established Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim as the most wide­spread read­ing
  ‒ the three gun powder empires ‒ Mame­luke, Timurid, Safa­vid ‒ did that,
    because for their non-Arabic elites that reading is the easiest,
    because closed to Standard Arbic
that it fixed the text once and for all ‒ in reality the oral text was fixed centuries ago,
the written text had minor variations, AS HAS the KFE.
Here I will not write about the more than 900 changes that the 1952 edition brought in the qurʾānic text (including the sura title boxes), but just about one word in 73:20: /allan/.
This is not about /allan/ in general.
At most places it has a fixed spelling,
e.g. 18:48 لن
at 72:12 ان لن
just about 73:20 where we find a back and forth. In 1924 (in the Giza print) we have لن in the first line
unchanged in the first small Būlāq print
changed in 1347/1928/9
back in 1952
the same in the small edition of 1955
and in the small edition of 1962
But in 1959: ان لن
(Havards holds all these editions ‒ Muḥammad Hozien took the pictures)
So far for real KFEs, which means
‒ published by the Government Press/Amiriyya
‒ no title page = [p.1] is completly empty
‒ an-nās on p. 827
‒ 12 lines per page
‒ catch word on each right page
ǧuz, ḥizb, saǧada, sakta in medallions on the margin
‒ text after an-nās with abǧad pagination
‒ big format (27 x 19 cm) printed by the Survey of Egypt)
    small format (20 x 15 cm) printed by the Amiriyya itself in Būlāq
    (when a library has a 24 cm codex it is a cut and rebound big edition)
‒ no duʿāʾ ‒ a secular edition, by and for the state, not al-Azhar, as often claimed
‒ no eulogies after ʿUṯmān bn ʿAffān, ʿAlī bn Abī Ṭālib etc. in the information after the qurʾānic text
‒ no bookmark

Let's move on to "reprints" by private printers or foreign states.
China Bekin 1955 (1924 text ‒ without dedication to Fuʾād)
Sowjet Uzbekistan, Taškend 1960 (1952 ‒ without dedication to Fuʾād)
Cairo Šarikat al-Iʿalānāt aš-šarqiya 1961
Jordan, first (1977, 4th edition)
Jordan, second (1993, reprint of Bairut/Damaskus 1975, with yellow floral frame that disappeared due to high contrast)
Bairut 1977
Bairut Dār al-Qurʾān (Muḥammad Baṣṣām al-Istwānī) 1398/1978
(the bookmark on the bottom of the images shows that it not an KFE)
Paris Dār al-Fikr 1981 (with french on opposite page)
Kuwait Mogahwi Press 1981
Qaṭar 1985 ‒ with added nūn
Bairut Dār al-lubnānī 1985, with "all right" by Maḥmūd al-Ḥuṣarī


With tafsīr
And as last group: private editions with the KFE set text, but rearranged
Muṣḥaf al-Malik, Cairo 1935
Cairo ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān Muḥammad/Dār al-Muṣḥaf 1971
Bairut 1983
Damascus 1983 Marwān Sawār
Neither a reprint, nor a rearrangement of KFE set lines, but a reSet is the Hyderabad edition of 1938. It has been photomechanical reproduced in London (i.a. for Sharja), Islamabad, and Bairut (for the Libyan World Islamic Call Society). See what the Indians did, what was made for the Libyans;
In 1976 die Amiriyya switched from the KFE to Muṣḥaf al-Azhar aš-Šarīf:
In 1979 the first (?) ʿUṯmān Taha muṣḥaf was published by Dār aš-Šāmiya on 603 pages in Damascus
Three years later the World Association of Muslim Youth, Riaḍ published it unchanged
On Xmas 1983 in Tehran it was published WITH a change
Since than from Çağrı Yayınları in Istanbul
and from Madina (with a nūn !)


























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