Showing posts with label KFA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KFA. Show all posts

Wednesday, 6 May 2026

Amīriyya 1952 1371

Although KFE (27 x 19 cm; since 1952) has the a different qurʾānic text (pp.2‒827) to the 1924 one (G24),
many experts are not aware of this, because it is the same type, the same page layout
(12 lines on 826 pages, with medallions for ǧuz, ḥizb, saǧa­da and saktha on the margin);
1952 has (ا), where 1924 counted ا , but did not print it.
All KFEs have an empty, un­paginat­ed, but counted title page, 826 pages of qurʾanic text
al-fātiḥa being on page 2, an-nās on page 827 ‒ plus 23 pages, 22 being paginated (the last being ت)
In the KFE II of 1952 the first 845 pages are roughly identical to KFE I,
the only difference being almost thousand changes in the qurʾānic text and that pages ج and ف are paginat­ed ‒ they used to be counted, but no letter was printed.
No KFE has a prayer/duʿāʾ.
In the last royal edition, KFE II 0, the next page is the im­pressum of 1924
followed by seven pages
In the large KFE II a editions (start­ing in 1953), three pages are gone:
the dedication to King Fuʾād, its empty back­side, and the empty page after س .
The page after س ,the خاتيمة on page ف is moved to after ض ,
some­thing that hurts anyone who under­stands abjad.
ض is 800 in proper abjad, 26 in the KFE-version, fā' is 80 in real abjad, 17 in the simplified version: 17 coming after 26 is a crime (unfortnalely lapsed; 80 being 801 is not better)
Before the four pages Table of Suras (without the sura #) an empty page is inserted.

Wednesday, 8 April 2026

KFE again

Although I have posted about the King Fuʾād Edition several times, here again.
First some sorts to demonstrate that the KFE was more linear than the Ottoman maṣā­ḥif,
it was not as linear as ʿUṯmān Ṭaha (always below with yellowish background):
And here is page alif from 1924:
and 1952:
Did you notice: the 1952 has (ا), where 1924 counted ا , but did not print it.

Warš

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