Showing posts with label Kerala. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kerala. Show all posts

Saturday, 15 June 2024

India 1883 (and 2000)

The British Libray holds Arabic books printed in Kerala (or around) by Muslims. The place of publication is يلشير (Tilshīr), possibly Thalassery.
from a modern print by Ch Muhammed And Son in Tirurangadi, Malappuram, Kerala

Sunday, 8 March 2020

iẓhār nūn (& iqlāb mīm)

Marijn van Putten has discovered the iẓhār nūn
both after tanwīn:

and "normal" nūn sākin:

and even one example where the extra green nūn is misplaced ‒ suggesting that the colour signs were added in a second phase:

should have been like this
I'm a bit dis­appointed that van Putten has never seen or heard of iẓ­hār nūn, al­though I have pub­lished about it. I first dis­covered it in Bom­bay reprints from Indone­sia, but later both in Indian mss. and prints.

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 li...