King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran
مجمع الملك فهد لطباعة المصحف الشريف
Formation1985
PurposePrinting of the Quran
HeadquartersMedina
Location
Coordinates24°30′59″N 39°32′29″E / 24.51639°N 39.54139°E / 24.51639; 39.54139
Secretary General
Dr. Bandar bin Fahd Al-Suwailem
Head
Saleh Al Sheikh
Websitequrancomplex.gov.sa

King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an (Arabic: مجمع الملك فهد لطباعة المصحف الشريف) is a printing plant located in Medina, Saudi Arabia that publishes the Quran in Arabic and other languages.

The company produces about 10 million copies a year. It has 1,700 employees. It has published 55 different translations of the Qur'an in 39 languages. Its website offers the Arabic Qur'an, recitations, textual search, translations, images of early Qur'an manuscripts,[1] and exegetic commentaries.[2] Since 1985, The Complex made over 128 million books of the Qur'an,[3] which is widely used by all sects of Islam. Original copy was written by calligrapher, Uthman Taha[3]

Production

From 1985, its opening year, until 2007[4]

Type Amount
1 Qur'an Kareem 127,420,423
2 Audio tapes 1,817,129
3 Translations 24,624,813
4 Parts of Qur'an 47,592,277
5 Prophet's traditions books 210,000
6 Others 4,668,941
Total 206,333,583

The King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran produces The Noble Quran, which is made freely available and is among the most widely read Quran translations in the world. Both the translation and associated contents have been criticised.[5]

Distribution of collector versions

The complex began distributing its versions of the Qur’an, recordings, parts, the Yaseen quarter, the last ten days, translations, and books since 1405 AH, and this is done to Muslims inside and outside the Kingdom around the world, and the quantities distributed amounted to hundreds of millions.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Official website". Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
  2. ^ "Official website". Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
  3. ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2014-10-01.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), from qurancomplex.com
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2014-10-01.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), from official website qurancomplex.com
  5. ^ Juergensmeyer, Mark; Kitts, Margo; Jerryson, Michael (2013-01-01). The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence. OUP USA. p. 483. ISBN 9780199759996. In the 1980's two Salafi scholars based in the Islamic University of Medina and working under the supervision of Bin Baz, Taqi al-Din al-Hilali and Muhsin Khan institutionalized an interpretation of Islam... through their work Translations of the meanings of the Noble Qur'an in the English Language (1985). In it they used sustained interpolations to insert the interpretation of the Bin Baz school directly into the English rendition of the Qur'an. It was... used to inculcate Muslims and potential Muslims with militant interpretations of Islam artfully disguised, through parenthesis, as teachings of the Qur'an pure and simple.
  6. ^ "بِسواعدَ وطنية.. مجمع الملك فهد لطباعة المصحف ينتج 18 مليون نسخة". 2019-08-29. Archived from the original on 2019-08-29. Retrieved 2022-07-10.

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