Dienstag, 6. Juli 2010

Neo-Ottoman

In the last 30 years almost a hundred editions of neo-Ottoman mushaf have been published in Turkey or by Turks abroad, some reprints of old manuscripts, some newly set, some recently written.
All have the same page number, and the very same spelling (including all the little signs).
This was written before 1947 in the traditonal style.
Whereas this was written recently in mock typewriter style.
This was written in the late 19th century, reprinted now in Istanbul.

This was written in the late 18th century by Hafiz Uthmân, here a 1930 Damascus reprint.
And here is the reason, why I speak of neo-Ottoman. This reprint from an Arab country shows the same text as the Turkish editions, shows all the reading helps, all the pause signs of the neo-Ottoman school, but it shows additional sign as well, signs I had hitherto only seen in South Asia editions.

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