"reprints", copies, adaptations

Although the KFE was almost only sold to oritentalists, in the seventies many publisher "remade" it on there light tables (lay­out tables): they 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:

the right side always gets a catchword. Sometimes a ornament fills an empty line to get a niche new page.

The publisher made a tafsīr around his rearranged muṣḥaf as well

Marwān Sowār, Damascus:

Dār aš-Šurūq:

or more and longer lines:

links: Bairut 1983, Mitte: Kairo 1391/1971, rechts: Jordanischer Nachdruck eines Damaszener Nachdrucks von Kairo 1952
some editions with tafsīr keep the original pages

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other rearrange the text

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Only three years after the type set education ministry muṣḥaf a hand written one with 17 lines per page (with 545 pages) was published by al-ʻĀmirah al-Bahīyah
aub aco002371 Cairo: al-Maṭbaʻah al-ʻĀmirah al-Bahīyah, 1346/1927/8 545pp .

(in the last line above, in II:17 you can see a small waw to lenghten ḍamma, a Maġribian feature new to Egypt.)

On the next image you see 73:20 /allan/ without the silent alif, which was only added around 1928 in a small (Būlāq) edition.

Like any specialist I have deviced some terms. For me only a copy by the Amīrīya Press, without a title page, with­out a duʿāʾ,, with different pagination for the qurʾān and the appendixes is a King Fuʾād Edition (even those with­out the de­dication page after the revolu­tion, because nothing was changed after 1952 except names of experts stating that every­thing is correct and informa­tion about the place and date of print­ing/pub­lish­ing).
Only following the spelling and pauses deviced by al-Ḥusainī al-Ḥaddād I call G24 (because first printed in Giza in 1332/1924).
So this is a handwriting lithography using G24.

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Something in between: not a KFE by the Amīrīya, not a small kfe for students (i.e. small and with only 37 important changes to 1925), was published in 1959 by the Ministry of Auqāf: as far as I know: the original of 1952 just without the decication to the king and with less generous margins:

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Here a good reprint. 1402/1981 my the Muqahwī Press in Kuwait, with a titke page:

and with a pagination of its own

But aparat from that the 1952 KFA

The most radically rearranged muṣḥaf gets a post of its own.

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How to recognize a non-KFE?

a KFE has no title (i.e. an empty page 1)
no duʿāʾ
a catch word on the right hand page
pagination in the center of the footer
826 pages : an-nās on p.827 because the empty title page is counted
separate pagination for the appendixes

The easiest way is: When there is a title page and/or a duʿāʾ
















or when you see colour or page numbers higher than 827 – real KFE use separate pagination for the additions.

The frame and the medallions often give away that a print is not by the Amīrīya, but not always: both the Taškent edition and one of the Bairūt editions use the original frame, yet they are not KFEs.









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