Friday, 7 November 2025

UT0.5 + UT2.5

There are two maṣāḥif written by ʿUṯman Ṭaha not produced by the King Fahd Complex (KFC), nor being a predecessor of theirs (the Dār aš-Šāmiyya muṣḥaf), nor pirated versions of a Medina Mushaf:
Muṣḥaf ar-Risāla, Bairut 1986
and the Global Foundation Mushaf from Saudia by الوقف العالمي للقـرآن الكريـم
note that the basmala which is not part of the sura is in blue, while it is in black in the fatiḥa, a tiny improvement, and all verses ending at the end of a line

on this one line (above) you do not see, what I want to show, that UT0,5 is closer to MNQ (top line) than all the other UTs, that are more in line with KFE (second line).
The example on the left margin (and the whole page) show this point clearly: While UT "normally" avoideds stacked ligature, in this exceptionable muṣḥaf he is closer to traditional calligraphy, a bit away from newspaper style (i.e. baseline orientated):

UT puts into maṣāḥif he writes for "others" something special to make them iden­tifi­able, like using on one page only end-mīm with a short tail to the left (instead of altering between short tails and long vertical tails). In muṣḥaf ar-risāla the mark is the rounded fatḥa – not always, but most of the time:
Muhammad Hozien pointed this out. He provided the images as well – thanks.
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UT0.5 + UT2.5

There are two maṣāḥif written by ʿUṯman Ṭaha not produced by the King Fahd Complex (KFC), nor being a predecessor of theirs (the Dār aš-Šām...