Uzbek Student Notes Lack of Punctuation Marks, Diacritics in Al-Azhar’s Braille Quran
Abed Janev, who is blind, in a visit to the international book fair in Cairo learned about the Quran in braille, El-Balad News reported.
He hailed the publication of the Quran in braille but said there are some areas that need improvement.
One is the fact that there are no signs for Waqf and Ibtida (pause and restart), which makes it difficult for the blind to read the Quran, Abed said.
He added that there are no Tashdid (gemination) signs in the book either and some of the pages have no page numbers.
Abed expressed hope that these notes would be taken care of in the following printing of the copy.
Braille is a writing system which enables the blind and partially-sighted people to read and write through touch.
It was invented by Louis Braille (1809-1852), who was blind and became a teacher of the blind.
In recent years, the Holy Quran and religious books have been printed in Braille to help the visually-impaired Muslims read the texts with ease.
