Milestone·Modern
Cairo Edition of the Quran Printed
- Date
- July 1924 CE1342 AH102 years ago
- Place
- Cairo, Egypt
- People
- Fuad I
The Cairo edition of the Quran was printed in 1924 at the Amiri Press in Bulaq. It was produced under King Fuad I of Egypt, with oversight from scholars of al-Azhar. Al-Azhar accepted its text as the reference version, and it became widely used across the Arab world. The edition is also known as the King Fuad Quran.
Why it matters
Its text became a widely used reference edition for printed Qurans in the twentieth century.