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Thursday, 14 May 2026

Sunday, 23 May 2021

Morocco ... Muṣḥaf al-Muḥammadī

To commemorate Hassan II's silver jubilee and later Muhammads VI's accession to the throne the Kingdom published editions in magh­re­bian style ‒ both in colour and back&white. I looked in vain for information about the printing place.
This could be the reason the reserve::

The press wasn't in the Sherifian Kingdom, but in Cairo. Al-Muǧallad al-ʿArabi (often printers make up names for special occasions) was in charge.
But the third edition was home made ‒ in a press founded in Faḍāla (named Muham­media since 1959) after WWII and bought in the 1960ies by the Minstery for Reli­gious Affairs and Pious Foundations al-Maṭbaʿ al-Faḍāla.



While under Hassan II there was only one Royal Muṣḥaf (in cheap and in expen­sive editions) ‒ written by seven Moroccan calligraphers

there are new four different ones:
‒ one hand written, similar to his father's

‒ one computer set ‒ "andalusian", i.e. with green dots for hamzat,





‒ one computer set ‒ "moroccan"
and the same in an expensive edition:

and with reduced colours:
‒ one with images of wooden tablets from madrasas‒ printed 2007 in Graz, Austria.







another UT1 from Damascus

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