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The Cairo edition (Arabic: المصحف الأميري, "the Amiri Mus'haf"), or the King Fu'ād Quran (مصحف الملك فؤاد) or the Azhar Quran, is an edition of the Quran printed by the Amiri Press in the Bulaq district of Cairo on July 10, 1924.
The influential standard Quran of Cairo ("1342 Cairo text" using the Islamic calendar) is the Quran that was used throughout almost all the Muslim world until the Saudi Quran of 1985. [citation needed] The Egyptian edition is based on the "Ḥafṣ" version ("qira'at") based on ʻAsim's recitation, the 8th-century recitation of Kufa.
The Ma'il Quran is an 8th-century Quran (between 700 and 799 CE) originating from the Arabian peninsula. It contains two-thirds of the Qur'ān text and is one of the oldest Qur'āns in the world. It was purchased by the British Museum in 1879 from the Reverend Greville John Chester and is now kept in the British Library. [50]
Muhammad Mahmud Ghali (1920–29 November 2016) [1] [2] was the Professor of Linguistics and Islamic Studies, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Ghali studied phonetics at the University of Exeter in the UK before obtaining his PhD in Phonetics from the University of Michigan. He spent 20 years interpreting the meanings of the Quran into
Abdul Basit finished learning the Quran at age of 10 and then requested his grandfather and father to continue his education with the Qira’at (recitations). They both agreed and sent him to the city of Tanta (Lower Egypt) to study the Quranic recitations (‘ulum al-Quran wa al-Qira’at) under the tutelage of Sheikh Muhammad Salim, a well known teacher of recitaion of that time.
Eventually, Hafs' recitation of Aasim's method was made the official method of Egypt, [5] having been formally adopted as the standard Egyptian printing of the Qur'an under the auspices of Fuad I of Egypt in 1923. [4] The majority of copies of the Quran today follow the reading of Hafs.
The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA; Arabic: متحف الفن الاسلامى) in Cairo, Egypt is considered one of the greatest museums in the world, with its exceptional collection of rare woodwork and plaster artefacts, as well as metal, ceramic, glass, crystal, and textile objects of all periods, from all over the Islamic world.
In 1944, Al-Hussary won Egypt Radio's Qu'ran Recitation competition which had around 200 participants, including veterans like Muhammad Rifat. [5] The quadrumvirate of Al-Minshawy , Abdul Basit , Mustafa Ismail , and Al-Hussary are generally considered the most important and famous reciters of modern times to have had an outsized impact on the ...