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Sunday, 12 July 2020

linear ‒ not for technical reasons

Thomas Milo wrote that, the letters of the King Fuʾād Edition are simpler than Ottoman handwritten ones,  because it was to difficult to print that way.
Actually the Modernists behind the KFE from the Education Ministry and the Pedagogical College an-Naṣārīya wanted easy to read simple letters. The Būlāq type case had many ligatures that they did not want to use:
ʿUṯmān Ṭaha went even further, using even fewer ligature (see at the right margin):


To underline that it was a conscious decision, here some words from the back matter:

On the left of the last to lines I juxtapose words from the back matters with the same words from the Qurʾānic text.

Amīriyya 1978 1398

on the left from the pocket version 1977, on the right the normal one the large Qaṭarī reprint 1988