Showing posts with label sukūn sign. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sukūn sign. 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.

Monday, 7 April 2025

oddity from Pakistan

While India has a long tradition of spelling maṣāḥif,
there is one šaiḫ, Ẓafār Iqbāl as-Sīālkōtī, who published a mix of Indian and African spelling:
he keeps the long vowel signs
he adds hamza sign (which in IPak is included in vowel sign)
he adds differenciated tanwin signs (an improvement, but not necessary: determined by the following letter)
he does not differentiate between ī and ĭ (determined by the following letters)
he has both the normal ǧazm/head of ǧim without dot and the "Calcutta" angle for sukūn (why?)

yet another mistake in KFE1924

The maker of the 1924 Cairo edition evidently did not understand the function of the mutating small alif: it is not a vowel sign but turns ...