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Mushaf — المصحف

Definition: The Quran as a written, bound book, in its established order.

Purpose: Used when the properties of the written representation matter: rasm, layout, pages, lines and marks.

• A mushaf is a written vessel for the Quran, not the Quran itself: mushafs differ in rasm, pages and marks while the Quran is one.

Related: quran, mushaf_edition, rasm, layout, page, rasm_uthmani

Sources:

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Mushaf Edition — طبعة المصحف

Definition: A specific published edition of the mushaf with its own publisher, rasm, dabt, layout and other properties.

Purpose: Used to tell apart editions that may differ in pages, lines, marks or typographic properties.

Related: mushaf, layout, page, riwayah, font, rasm, ruku

Quran — القرآن

Definition: The speech of Allah revealed to Muhammad, peace be upon him, whose recitation is worship. The name covers the whole and, by context, any part of it.

Purpose: Represents the Quranic content itself, independent of any particular mushaf, layout, formatting or digital representation.

• The Quran is the speech itself; the mushaf is its written vessel. Pages, rasm and marks belong to the mushaf, not to the Quran.

Related: mushaf, surah, ayah, quran_merits

Sources:

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