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Thursday, 7 September 2023

Bombay with a difference

In the middle of the 20th century Bombay publishers did not only print maṣāḥif for the subcontinent, for Indonesia, but for Central Asia as well (1375/1956):

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 ...