Rasm Uthmani

The spelling of the Uthmanic copies, kept in mushafs even where it differs from modern Arabic spelling.

Also written · Rasm al-Uthmani · Rasmul Uthmani · Rasm · Uthmani script · Usmani script · Uthmani mushaf · Ottoman script Quran · Uthmanic codex

The meaning

What Rasm Uthmani means in Islam

The original copies carried no dots and no vowel marks, only the consonantal skeleton, which could hold more than one authentic reading at once. Later scholars added dots, vowels and stop marks without touching that skeleton. This is why some words are written in the mushaf differently from how they are written today, and why Uthmani and simplified Indo-Pak printings look unlike each other on the page.

Evidence · Editorial · Our own summary, drawn from the sources named

Read beside it

Words that sit beside it

MushafA physical copy of the Qur'an: the pages, ink and binding, as distinct from the revelation itself.المُصْحَف
Jam' al-Qur'anThe gathering of the Qur'an into one written volume, carried out under Abu Bakr and then Uthman.جَمْعُ القُرْآن
Qira'atThe canonical ways of reciting the Qur'an, each carried by chain from the Prophet through a named reader.القِراءات
Al-Ahruf as-Sab'ahThe seven modes in which the Qur'an was revealed, an ease for the community; what a mode is stays disputed.الأَحْرُفُ السَّبْعَة