Cairin edition of the Koran

The Kairin Koran edition is an official edition of the Koran - the holy scripture of Islam , which according to the Muslim faith contains the literal revelation of God to the prophet Mohammed . It first appeared in 1924, after extensive preparatory work, during the reign of King Fuad . The edition follows the reading ( qirāʾa ) of ʿĀṣim (from Kufa ) in the tradition of Ḥafṣ , the most widespread reading of the Koran. It follows the Kufic counting system , according to which the Koran consists of 6236 verses .

meaning

This print is the generally used standard edition and the text of the Koran that is binding for Muslims. It forms the basis for later editions of the Koran and is said to be consistent with the Koran of the third Muslim caliph , ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān .

The Egyptian scholar Muhammad Chalaf al-Husaini ( Arabic محمد خلف الحسيني, DMG Muḥammad Ḫalaf al-Ḥusainī ; died 1938 or 1939) is named as the first of a four-member committee, of which Hifni Nasif (حفني ناصف / Ḥifnī Nāṣif ; 1855–1919), Mustafā Anānī (مصطفى عناني / Muṣṭafā ʿInānī ) and Ahmad al-Iskandarī (1875–1938) counted. Chalaf al-Husaini officiated as Sheikh al-maqāriʾ al-miṣrīya ( Arabic شيخ المقارئ المصرية), d. H. as head of the Egyptian institutes of Koran reciters .

In science, the Cairin edition of the Koran has replaced that by Gustav Flügel (1802–1870), which first appeared in Leipzig in 1834 .

As you can see on page 296, the beginning of the 19th sura, from the first edition of the Berlin State Library, it is not a lithographed manuscript. The text was set in the Amīrīya printing house in Bulaq according to the printer's notice and printed in the Land Surveying Office in Giza .

Expenses etc.

• Cairo 1924 (1342 nH )
• Photomechanical reproduction. In: Adel Theodor Khoury : The Koran. Arabic-German. Translation and scientific commentary . 12 vols. Gütersloh 1990-2001. ("With the exception of the first double page of the Koran!")
• Koran transliteration by Hans Zirker (as of August 18, 2020)
• Correlation Chart for the Verses of the Flügel (1834) and Cairo (1925) Editions of the Qur'an - muhammadanism.com

literature

• Arne A. Ambros: The divergences between the wing and the Azhar Koran . Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 78 (1988), 9–21 ( jstor ).
• Gotthelf Bergsträßer : “Reading the Koran in Cairo”. In: Der Islam , Vol. 20 (1932), pp. 1-42 digitized
• Gotthelf Bergsträßer: “Plan of an Apparatus Criticus for the Koran”. Munich. Bavarian Academy of Sciences Headquarters. Philos.-hist. Dept. Meeting Area Year 1930: 7 digital copies
• Hartmut Bobzin : The Koran: an introduction . CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 340643309X . Most recently: 5th edition 2004.
• Adrian Alan Brockett : Studies in Two Transmissions of the Quran . 1984. University of St. Andrews , Department of Arabic Studies (PhD Thesis)
• Claude Gilliot : Une reconstruction critique du Coran ou comment en finir avec les merveilles de la lampe d'Aladin
• Arthur Jeffery : Materials for the History of the Text of the Qurʾān . Leiden 1937. pp. 114-181.
• Lamya Kandil: The surenames in the official Cairin Koran edition and their variants . In: Islam . Band 69, Issue 1 (1992), pages 44-116 ( deGruyter )
• Angelika Neuwirth : Structure and the Emergence of Community . In: Andrew Rippin (Ed.): The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an . Oxford 2006 (Blackwell Companions to Religion), pp. 140-158.
• Theodor Nöldeke : History of the Qoran. With a literary-historical appendix about the Muslim sources and the more recent Christian research . New edition Dietrich, Leipzig 1909/38, Vol. 3 The history of the Koran text . 2nd, completely revised edition by G. Bergsträsser and O. Pretzl. Leipzig 1938. ( digitized version )
• Gabriel Said Reynolds : “Introduction”, in: Gabriel Said Reynolds (Ed.): New Perspectives on the Qur'an: The Qur'an in Its Historical Context . Routledge, London 2008.
• Anton Spitaler , Otto Pretzl : The counting of the Koran according to Islamic tradition . Bayer. Akad. D. Sciences; CH Beck, Munich 1935.
• Saleh Sulaiman Al-Wohaibi: Qur'ānic variants (ʻIlm al-Qirā'āt): an historical-phonological study . Diss. Indiana University 1982.

Web links

• Koran text of the Cairo edition with commentary, translations and recitation (altafsir.com)
• Sample page from the Corpus Coranicum research project
• Thomas Milo: Annotations to the printing of the 1924 Azhar Qur'an (5.5MB) , Asmus Freytag: Arabic errata (unicode.org)

References and footnotes

1. ↑ On the various verses, cf. The number of verses in the Koran - islam-akademie.de (according to Spitaler)
2. ↑ cf. z. B. the own laws following counting the output of wing (1834) etc. ( muhammadanism.com )
3. ↑ cf. Andreas Ismail Mohr: References to the Koran, Sīrah and Islamic spirituality (10/2011) - ismailmohr.de
4. ↑ See also the section The implementation of the Uthmanic text of the Koran in the article al-Hajjaj ibn Yūsuf
5. ↑ [1]
6. ↑ Gotthelf Bergsträßer : “Koran Reading in Cairo”. In: Der Islam , Vol. 20 (1932), p. 3.
7. ↑ ismailmohr.de