[QURAN / KAZAN IMPRINT] Kalâm-i Sharîf. Muhammadjan Bashriga Ihya Sharîfjan b. Minhaj Al-Din Al-Karim

[QURAN / KAZAN IMPRINT] Kalâm-i Sharîf. Muhammadjan Bashriga Ihya Sharîfjan b. Minhaj Al-Din Al-Karim

$1,250.00
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THE GLORIOUS QUR'AN, Dombrajski Printing House, Qazan & St. Petersburg, 1895. Contemporary non-aesthetic cloth bdg. Wear and cracked on hinges, dusty stains on boards, fading and stains on some pages, overall a good copy. 4to. (27 x 19 cm). Title in Kazan-Tatar language, text in Arabic. 423, [1] p.Exceedingly rare early quarto-sized Qur'an printed in Kazan, with "haraka" in usual typography peculiar to the Qazan imprints. Marginal texts addressing variant readings (qirâ'ât), verse divisions, commentary on the text, and rare elucidation in Tatar and Arabic, concludes chapter (sûrah) headings alongside page numbers of their respective openings, as well as the table of errata. "The Russian Emperor Paul gave permission for the printing in Qazan city of secular books in Tatar, in Arabic script, but the realization of this called for tireless efforts on the part of enlightened Tatars, with the support of the scholars of Qazan State University, whose publishing house relied financially on

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