Monday, 24 August 2026

mistake made, mistake copied

In 1924 the King Fuʾād Edition mis­placed both hamza signs and mu­tat­ing small alifs (daggers) after the yāʾ-tooth – something that was not done in the West or in the East.
But now "everybody" copies the mistake, even Merkaz Ṭabʿ-o Našr and MSI without acknowledging their borrow­ings from Medina.:
BTW, in the data stream of (most, all ?) institutions both hamza sign and mu­tat­ing small alif sit on the tooth (there is no kašī­da/ tat­wīl in the files), but the King Fahd Complex inserts space in their special Ḥafṣ KFGQPC font. The image on the left shows the same text in two dif­ferent fonts: Ḥafṣ and Warš, the former moves the hamza-sign to the left.

Some rules are so obvious and internalized that they only catch your eye when broken. In writing, the rule dictates that a tooth/nabrah can never stand bare: a tooth without a dot (or dots), with­out a dagger alif, or without a hamzah sign (the miniature ʿayn head) just doesn't exist.
Just because the KFE and UT misplace the mutating alif after the y-tooth, the Markaz TabʿoNašr does it too. Although not a strong argument against I show both old manuscripts and "the Šamarlī" and the MSI not partaking in the crime.

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a bombshell

Morteza Karimi-Nia has published a book Codex Mashhad , and a web site . Most interesting: Sura order like Codex Masʿud Orthography