> On Wednesday 16 June 2004 19:41, Thomas Milo wrote: > > Salaam Mohammed, > > > > Regarding the logical or nominal order of the characters, it would help if > > you could explain a bit clearer why you think the Qur'an should be printed > > in modern spelling. I was not aware of this requirement. > > > > I have only seen Mushafs in manuscript and the singular typeset edition > > from Cairo, that place the fathatan (Arabic for: "two fatha's") on top of > > the letter that governs the other two cases of tanween as well. Below is a > > striking example from the famous Suhrawardi Mushaf written in Mamluki style > > that leave no doubt that Suhrawardi did not even remotely associate the two > > fatha's with the trailing alif: > > > > That leaves us with another problem, you have to support BOTH behaviors.
The way I solved it is to treat both variants as equivalent. I consider it a font problem Some modern fonts are designed to print fathatan on top, othere only work well with trailing alif. For instance, the Ottoman Naskh that we are working on corrects the order indernally since it can only print fathatan against the alif. However, grammatically speaking, dammatan, kasratan and fathatan all reside on the letter that governs them. > BTW: This mamluki mushaf is not in popular use at all, the most popular > mushaf today is the one printed by QuranComplex as long as the > Shamarly and Haramain Masahef. Indeed, but these, too, are written according to the rules of classical Arabic grammar and never place fathatan on top of (i.e., logically following) the trailing alif. Wa s-salaam, t _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
