Showing posts with label Waterval Islamic Institute. Show all posts
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Saturday, 1 June 2024

the new edition on 848 pages with 13 lines

After 14 impression of a Taj Company Ltd edition with 13 lines, the Waterfaal Islamic Institute made a page identical type set version.
I like the Uṯmān Ṭaha like font.
I like that they moved و/wa/and from the end of (many) lines to the place where it belongs: just before the word of which it is really a part.
I think it horrible that they always place the upright fatha before hamza/alif instead of putting it above or after. First line from the new edition -- the others from Indonesia, Medina and Pakistan:
Unfortunately there are other mistakes:
(third line:) ۵ stands for non-Kufī (mostly Baṣrī, occasionaly Ḥimsī or Madanī) end of āya
It is an excellent idea, that "A small circle on a letter denotes that such a syllable must not be pronounced during continual recital, but should be recited when pausing"
but WII does not apply this ("their") rule:

I checked nine places, where the letter/the syllable is mute:
on top five: always mute --> no sign (accoring to the Indian rule, and the WII rule) bellow four: not mute ater a pause --> a circle according to the WII rule
Twice they did it the wrong way:
(in the middle column another 848page edition (written by Ḫalīq Asadī), as well two mistakes)
Here is the last page with the qurʾānic text


Asma Hilali again

A.H. writes in the intro­duction of the journal that the KFE was both edited and calli­graphed by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Rifāʿī, who had nothing...