自十六世纪起，欧洲开始使用活字印刷机，此后这一技术传遍世界各地，《古兰经》的书写与印刷模式由此进一步趋于统一。

From the sixteenth century, when the printing press with movable type was first used in Europe and later in all parts of the world, the pattern of writing and of printing the Qur'an was further standardised.

在此之前，已经有了所谓雕版印刷形式的《古兰经》印本，而且从十世纪起就有一些实物传世，既有真正的木刻雕版，也有印出的纸页。

There were already printed copies of the Qur'an before this, in the so-called block-print form, and some specimens from as early as the tenth century, both of the actual wooden blocks and the printed sheets, have come down to us.

[Grohmann, op. cit.. p.38;伦敦大英图书馆展览。]现存第一部使用活字印刷的《古兰经》于1694年在德国汉堡印行,全文附有元音符号。[Al-Coranus, lex islamitica Muhammedis, Officina Schultzio-Schilleriania. Hamburg, 1694;展览编号22。]穆斯林最早印刷的《古兰经》大概是1787年在俄国圣彼得堡出版的所谓"穆拉伊·乌斯曼版",此后又有喀山版(1828年)、波斯版(1833年)和伊斯坦布尔版(1877年)。[Blachere, R.: Introduction au Coran, Paris, 1947, p. 133.]1858年,德国东方学家弗呂格尔(Fluegel)编制了一部实用的索引,并刊行了所谓"弗呂格尔版"的阿拉伯文《古兰经》,此后几代东方学家一直使用该版本。[Fluegel, Gustav: Corani texn Arabicus. Leipzig, 1834.]不过,弗呂格尔版有一个很根本的缺陷:其经文节数的编号与穆斯林世界的通行做法不相符。 [See e.g. 74: 31, where he makes four verses out of one.]

[Grohmann, op. cit.. p.38; Exhibition in the British Library, London.] The first extant Qur'an for which movable type was used was printed in Hamburg (Germany) in 1694. The text is fully vocalised. [Al-Coranus, lex islamitica Muhammedis, Officina Schultzio-Schilleriania. Hamburg, 1694; Exhibition No. 22.] Probably the first Qur'an printed by Muslims is the so-called 'Mulay Usman edition' of 1787, published in St. Petersburg, Russia, followed by others in Kazan (1828), Persia (1833) and Istanbul (1877). [Blachere, R.: Introduction au Coran, Paris, 1947, p. 133.] In 1858, the German orientalist Fluegel produced together with a useful concordance the so-called 'Fluegel edition' of the Qur'an, printed in Arabic, which has since been used by generations of orientalists. [Fluegel, Gustav: Corani texn Arabicus. Leipzig, 1834.] The Fluegel edition has however a very basic defect: its system of verse numbering is not in accordance with general usage in the Muslim world. [See e.g. 74: 31, where he makes four verses out of one.]

当今穆斯林世界广泛使用的古兰经印刷本，正逐渐发展为一个"标准版本"，即所谓的"埃及版"，也称为"福阿德国王版"，因为它是在福阿德国王统治时期于埃及推出的。该版本以阿绥姆所传的哈夫斯诵读为依据，于1925年（即1344年伊历）首次在开罗印刷。此后，该版本已被多次印刷，数量众多。

The Qur'anic text in printed form now used widely in the Muslim world and developing into a 'standard version', is the socalled 'Egyptian' edition, also known as the King Fu'ad edition, since it was introduced in Egypt under King Fu'ad. This edition is based on the reading of Hafs, as reported by 'Asim, and was first printed in Cairo in 1925/1344H. Numerous copies have since been printed.

最后，应当提及由土耳其赛义德·努尔西（Sa'id Nursi）的追随者印刷的《古兰经》，它是将手写精美装饰文本与现代胶印技术相结合的一个例子。该经文由土耳其书法家哈米德·阿米迪（Hamid al-'Amidi）手写。它最初于1947年在伊斯坦布尔印刷，但自1976年起，由赛义德·努尔西的追随者在西柏林（德国）经营的印刷厂大量印制，并有多种尺寸。

Finally, the Qur'an printed by the followers of Sa'id Nursi from Turkey should be mentioned as an example of combining a hand-written beautifully illuminated text with modern offset printing technology. The text was hand written by the Turkish calligrapher Hamid al-'Amidi. It was first printed in Istanbul in 1947, but since 1976 has been produced in large numbers and various sizes at the printing press run by the followers of Sa'id Nursi in West Berlin (Germany).