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King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran
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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.
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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 text itself, recitations, textual search, translations, images of early Qur'an manuscripts,[1] and exegetic commentaries.[2] Since 1985, The Complex made over 128 million copies of the Qur'an,[3] which is widely used by all sects of Islam. The original copy was written by calligrapher Uthman Taha.[3]
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Production
From 1985, its opening year, until 2007[4]
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]
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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]
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