Une des premières éditions du Coran de Kazan Lot n° 13

One of the 1st printed Kazan Qu'ran, Russia, 1821. L'Imprimerie du Gymnase asiatique, colophon: at the expense of Joseph Ismail Oglou 1821 LE CORAN EN ARABE, Small in-4 half-basane with corners, ornate smooth spine, red morocco title page, speckled edges. 764 p. and eleven lines per page. Mixed azure and white paper. Framing vignettes on both frontispiece pages. ( Bibliothèque S. de Sacy 1467 - Uns Khaldof, Dalil al-matbou'at fi Roussiya 318/13). The typeface used is recognized as Kazan naskh (Kazanskii nash in Russian). References Efim A. Rezvan, "A History of Printed Editions of the Qur'an," The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies ed. Mustafa Shah & M. A. S. Abdel Haleem (2020) 261-262 Yakubovych, Mykhaylo. History of the Printing of the Glorious Qur'an in Europe: Editions, their Quality and Accuracy, in: Studies of the Symposium on Printing the Qur'an (2014), Madinah: King Fahd Glorious Qur'an Printing Complex, 2016, pp. 51-76. The Qur'an was first published in an edition printed by Muslims in Kazan, in 1803. Prior to this date, and for most of the 19th century, the Koran had been transmitted mainly by handwritten copy in the Muslim world. Widely distributed among Muslims in Russia and the neighboring countries of the Ottoman Empire, the print run is said to have been 1,500 copies. The Arabic characters used were those of the St. Petersburg press, transferred to Kazan in 1801-1802, when the Asian press was created at the Kazan gymnasium. Kazan and the surrounding area were among the most densely populated Islamic regions in Russia, creating a strong demand for religious books. The Kazan press was in fact the only press allowed to publish Muslim religious literature. The study by E. A. Rezvane's study reveals that the Kazan edition of the Glorious Qur'an occupies a very important place not only in the history of Qur'an publication, but also in the preservation of Islamic religious identity throughout the Muslim world. One of the 1st printed Kazan Qu'ran, Russia, 1821.