Showing posts with label Algiers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Algiers. Show all posts

Sunday, 27 September 2020

Alger les débuts

In Algiers the print of maṣāḥif started only around 1900:

The most important print was made 1931 and 1937 (and probably in the years between ??):
printed and printed again ... until 1970.

yet another mistake in KFE1924

The maker of the 1924 Cairo edition evidently did not understand the function of the mutating small alif: it is not a vowel sign but turns ...