Cairo 1924

In the first years of the 20^th century the normal muṣḥaf in Egypt was Ottoman: with proper اللٰه , with both original alif (i.e. hamz when with a haraka-sign), and often alif as mater lectionis (5150 times more often than in the "ʿUṯmānic rasm" ‒ which has 5150 more dagger alifs). ‒ “Imlāʾī” suggests the modern standard ortho­graphy of MSA, which it is not: This becomes imme­dia­tely clear from the spelling of words such as raḥmn (for raḥmān) and ṣalū (for ṣalāt), forms that deli­be­ra­tely diverge from normal. al-Ribā; 2:275 (3x);276;278; 3:130; 4:161; al-Ṣalāt; 70 x ṣalātī; 6:162; ṣalāti r-rasūli; 9:99; ṣalātaka; 9:103; a-ṣalātuka; 11:87; ṣalātihim; 107:5; al-Zakāt; 32x from 2:43 to 98:5; al-Ḥayāt; 55x from 2:85 to 89:24; wa-Manāta; 53:20; al-Najāt; 40:41; ka-miškātin; 24:35; bi-l-ghadāti; 6:52; 18:28;
The King Fuʾād Edition of 1924 is in the "ʿUṯmānic rasm" but not as the result of a tedious, year long discussions by a commitee (as many experts claim), but as a simple switch.




BTW, compared to the Ottoman rasm, G24 differs only in about 5 150 places where it writes a dagger instead of an alif, whereas its spelling system yields roughly 32 000 different word‑forms when set against IPak.
Except for the sequence Iso­Hamza+Alif, which was adopted from the Maghreb in 1308/1890 and 1342/1924 (alif+madda was not possible, since madda was already taken for elonga­tion ‒ btw, the Būlāq type print of 1299/1881 (Muṣḥaf Taufīq) uses madda for /ʾā/), in the Muḫalla­lātī print of 1308/1890 every­thing is already as in 1924.





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