Requesting help regarding finding the oldest printed copy of Qur’an Ajim
Brother, salam and best wishes.
I am a lawyer in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I am currently researching the matter of the preservation of the Qur’an Ajim. My hypothesis is that Allah Rabbul Alamin did not promise to preserve the Qur’an Ajim despite the contrary claim on the basis of Verse No. 9 of Sura No. 15 - Suratul Hijri: “Wa inna lahu lahafizuna”. I say this because of the overwhelming evidence that I have discovered in the text of the Qur’an of its corruption, including declarations of Allah Tayala that Qur’an has been distorted, interalia, at “thumma yuharrifoonahu”, verse No. 75 of Suratu-lbakarati [2:75].
I am using ‘the Meaning of the Glorious Quran, Text, Translation and Commentary’ by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, published in 1938 by Dar al-Kitab al-Masri, Cairo and Dar al-Kitab Allubnani, Beirut, 3rdEdition, 1938 for my research. I also possess a digital copy made my scanning the printed 1937 ’THE HOLY QUR-AN: ARABIC TEXT WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY, BY 'ABDULLAH YÜSUF 'ALI’ Three-Volume Edition, 1937, PUBLISHED BY SHAIKH MUHAMMAD ASHRAF, Kashmiri Bazar, Lahore (India)[1].
I have found that the first printed Qur’an was the Venetian printer Alessandro Paganini produced the first Arabic Koran in 1537/38[2]; we know one in St. Petersburg in Russia at the request of Catherine the Great (1762-1796); and one or more copies before the seminal edition was published by the Amiri Press in the Bulaq district of Cairo on July 10, 1924, see for details, interalia, at Wikipedia[3]. “It is the first printed Quran to be accepted by a Muslim authority—Al-Azhar”, states Wikipedia.
I am looking for the 1924 Cairo edition of the Qur’an Ajim. Do you know where I can access a digital version of that copy, or can download a PDF copy of that?
I would appreciate any help. Jajakallahu khairan.
With best regards.
[1] Available online at a Government of India website, among other places, https://indianculture.gov.in/ebooks/holy-qur-arabic-text-english-translation-and-commentary-0, accessed last on 04.12.2022. It is mentionable that it is very difficult to find any digital copy of this publication. A second location is https://archive.org/details/the-holy-quran-arabic-text-with-english-translation-and-commentary-3-volumes-com, also accessed last on 04.12.2022.
[2]Prof. dr. Harmut Bobzin University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, Early Printed Korans, Holy Books Installment I & II, Brochure, https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/31766_Brochure.pdf, accessed last on 12.12.2022.
[3]Cairo edition, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_edition#:~:text=The%20Cairo%20edition%20(Arabic%3A%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81,Muslim%20authority%E2%80%94Al%2DAzhar., accessed last on 12.12.2022.
Abu Raihan Muhammed Khalid ......Abu, I'm in the US. And added your questions to Google. And selected "shopping". Please Note I used Quran...the english way, to ask in google. There's many for sale. And with a wide range of prices. The results show the book. But in the google image ad do not specify 1924. You'll have to click and check them. Let me know if you have trouble with the link
Here's the link to the page I'm looking at....https://www.google.com/search?tbm=shop&q=a+1924+Cairo+edition+of+the+Quran+Ajim&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO15ulmff7AhVFMlkFHS3DDkMQBQi_DCgA&biw=1412&bih=746&dpr=1
Thank you Brother Lee Clawson. The link seems to be broken, besides, I cannot buy any book from online. I am in Bangladesh, online payment is not supported in our country, not to add that such old book would be outside my financial abilities.
Best regards and thank you.
Abu Raihan Muhammed Khalid .....Abu, I can get online access to an "english" version. See link below. If the link work...see the tope to hear it in 3 languages. ----- And copied it. And attached it as a .txt file ---- If you need in another language please try on-line translation...or...Let me know of the language you need and I will try to find it....Also, I checked the link...it works. I hope its not the difference in our locations....
Abu Raihan Muhammed Khalid Abu, if the link works look along the top for a list of options. This one, "View by sūrah" opens an doffers a variety of translations. The site is named quran12-21.org and I added this..... /en/contexts/caire ( en = english )
Abu Raihan Muhammed Khalid ....Abu, did any of the links or attached file I sent help ???
Brother Lee Clawson, greetings from Dhaka, Bangladesh
I have read all your messages. I didnot have time to write you an appropriate answer. Many thanks for your kind help.
We are currently researching the results of our investigation in last few days. We have received so much information that was completely unknown to us during the course of this research.
I shall inform you of the results of course.
Please allow me some time.
Best regards.
Brother Lee Clawson, warm greetings from Bangladesh.
I am sorry that I could not write you earlier. Thank you very much for providing so much information.
There are my replies:
1. I have read the nice piece The Cairo Edition (1924) Hassan Chahdi during my initial research. Its quite good, I agree.
2. On December 14 you wrote: "I can get online access to an "english" version. See link below." But there is no link for any Qur'an, only the attached article mentioned above.
But, I have found the Cairo Qur'an there now, after looking into that site again. But the site is displaying some problem loading, perhaps it will be better later. Thank you.
Many thanks. I appreciate your kind help in this matter. By the way I hope you are safe in the cold storms in the USA now. I have seen the reports on BBC television.
We have found some other sites where scanned PDF copies of the Cairo 1924 Qur'an is provided, along with a plain text. This might interest you, have a look:
Mushaf al-misahat wal'amiria, Publisher: The Amiri Press - The Egyptian Survey Authority, Edition: The first 1342 AH - 1923 AD, Number of volumes: 1, Number of pages: 850.
Collected and arranged at the Amiri Press in Bulaq and printed in the Survey Authority in Giza during the reign of King Fuad I of Egypt
Date of publication: AH 3/29/1437
Digital copy prepared by scanning the original book is available online at the following webpages:
1. Archive.org: https://ia600207.us.archive.org/12/items/mushafElMesaha/mushafElMesaha.pdf, accessed last on 18.12.2022;
2. mushafElMesaha, at Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/mushafElMesaha/page/n836/mode/2up, accessed last on 18.12.2022;
3. Almeshkat.net https://www.almeshkat.net/book/10487, accessed last on 18.12.2022;
4. Almeshkat.net: http://www.almeshkat.net/books/archive/books/mushafElMesaha.rar [PDF in RAR], accessed last on 18.12.2022;
5. https://egypt-islamist.blogspot.com/2016/03/blog-post_158.html, accessed last on 18.12.2022;
There is a website dedicated to the Qur’an and has the Cairo Qur’an, it states “the printed edition of the Qurʾān published in Cairo 1924 (more precisely Gizeh: Survey and Land Registration Office) as its reference text”.
Edition of the Qurʾān (al-Qurʾān al-karīm), Cairo 1924, Image, Unicode Text, Latin Transcription, digital edition by Michael Marx, in collaboration with Tobias J. Jocham et al. (Corpus Coranicum):
https://corpuscoranicum.de/en/verse-navigator/sura/1/verse/3/print, accessed last on 18.12.2022.
May I learn about your own work on Qur'an please./ I dont suppose someone would know that much about this specialized subject without any previous research.
My best regards and best wishes.
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