King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran


King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an is a printing plant located in Medina, Saudi Arabia that publishes the Quran in Arabic and other languages.
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, and exegetic commentaries. Since 1985, The Complex made over 128 million copies of the Qur'an, which is widely used by all sects of Islam. The original copy was written by calligrapher Uthman Taha.

Production

From 1985, its opening year, until 2007
TypeAmount
1Qur'an Kareem127,420,423
2Audio tapes1,817,129
3Translations24,624,813
4Parts of Qur'an47,592,277
5Prophet's traditions books210,000
6Others4,668,941
Total206,333,583

The King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran produces Noble [Quran (Hilali–Khan)|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.

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.