Mushaf Al-Quran development and publishing in Malaysia: case study on Nasyrul Quran / Siti Nor Atikah Mohd Zawawi

Al-Quran has been printed in the western countries around 1537-1857 AD by the Dutch people. They have printed Surah Yusuf in order to use it as a training material for them to learn the Arabic language. Although, it has been translated with a lot of error and not accurate during that time in the western countries.Then in the year of 1848, countries in the south east Asia has been decided to print the Al-Quran by themselves. Some researchers in the world has been agreed and choose Nasyrul Quran that is located in Malaysia to start to do a serious research about the Al-Quran. Malaysia’s Nasyrul Quran has been crowned as the second largest institution to do the research for Al-Quran in the world. They did the research by analyzing the methods of Al-Quran publishing and identified the cause of error in printing as their research objective. In the Al-Quran publishing, there are a few methods that has been used such as, the controlling governance and the Al-Quran printing licensing organization. These institution was established in purpose to receive, to consider, and even to reject the applications for Al-Quran printing and publishing by following the Al-Quran printing and publishing standards. These standards has been set in order to have a better quality of Al-Quran, accurate, and perfect. Thus this, method will offer a much control in getting the right text, and more accurate materials without any embezzlement. This will help the researchers to identify the cause of error in Al-Quran printing so that they can minimize any wastage. This is because any error in Al-Quran printing will caused a greater number of disposal. Disposing will required higher cost while it can be minimized by not creating any errors in Al-Quran printing. Also, it will help in order to keep the purity and the integrity of the Al-Quran itself. Case study has been chosen as a method research to further strengthen this study. An interview method has been choose in this research methodology. An interview session has been done with the person incharge in Nasyrul Quran, Mr. Roslain, Madam Afiqah from the human resource departments, Mr. Hafizal from the pre-press departments, and the person incharge for press in Nasyrul Quran, Mr. Zaki. In conclusions, this research is being done in order to study the printing and publishing process of Al-Quran in Malaysia and to identify the methods that has been used in order to get zero defects in Al-Quran printing. The stated objectives has been satisfied from these interviews.