Showing posts with label Central Asia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Central Asia. Show all posts

Thursday, 7 September 2023

Bombay with a difference

In the middle of the 20th century Bombay publishers did not only print maṣāḥif for the subcontinent, for Indonesia, but for Central Asia as well (1375/1956):

A Visual Guide to Quranic Graphic Variants

While the text is the data, the graphic form is the text rendered as an image ‒ the text is basic, the graphic forms are just variants. Fir...