Friday, 19 June 2026

another UT1 from Damascus

BerKenār ʿUṯmān Ṭaha started in Damascus, but today is mostly associated with Madina.
Between 1991 and 2013 when they moved to Bairut, Ṣubḥī Ṭaha and his Dār al-Maʿrifa was well known for photoshoping UT1 for taǧīd and for readings other than Ḥafṣ.







From the begin­ning he did not use the Dār aš-Šāmīya muṣ­ḥaf but UT1 from the KFC: the yel­low­ish words are from an early print, the ones below from a recent ob­vious edition. That he had the ṣād-below-sign in 88:22 shows – I guess – that the KFC's first print still had it. In Januar 2008 he published the obvious edition with three in­no­va­tions:
– increased space bet­ween words
– boxes around fea­tures that did not apply if paused (ḥa­ra­kat, small ḥuruf al-madd, tanwīn signs and the two dots of tāʾ marbūṭa pro­nounced as /h/ before a pause), boxes at pauses
– white space after pos­sible pauses inclu­ding places where Indian Saǧa­wand had a pauses but Q52 had none.

Two or three years later these extra pauses with­out pause sign were re­moved with­out any ex­plana­tion.
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another UT1 from Damascus

BerKenār ʿUṯmān Ṭaha started in Damascus, but today is mostly associated with Madina. Between 1991 and 2013 when they moved to Bairut, Ṣub...