Showing posts with label damma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label damma. Show all posts

Monday, 8 June 2026

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.
First different forms of ḍamma ‒ they are the same whatever Unicode says.
next different forms of sukūn:









in the middle you see an East African muṣḥaf in which fatḥa+sukūn when they follow each other are joined (as if one sign)







below nūn ṣīla (nūn quṭnī) by the same calli­grapher, Hafiz ʿUṯmān the Elder: whether the nūn is near the tan­wīn or below the alif does not matter, it is the same. Whether it has an extra kasra or not, either.

Qaṭarī Warš

Zwitēn muwaḥḥad or here In Algeria there are state near editions of Warš (like 2026 the one for the Parisian Mosque "Coran du Cen...