دار الفجر (مصر)

What you will find on this page

• The titles of Dar al-Fajr present in the catalogue, in Arabic and all new.
• The origin: an Egyptian house. The information appears in the page name and on every listing.
• The information for comparison: year of printing, number of volumes, format, paper, binding, vocalisation.
• The nature of the editorial work: bare text, annotated text, text with indexes.

What the Egyptian origin implies

In Egypt, the quality of making varies a good deal from one publisher to another and from one printing to the next: thinner paper, sometimes uneven inking, glued bindings more frequent than in Lebanese or Saudi production. It is not an absolute rule; some Egyptian houses take as much care over their printings as anyone.

The counterpart is price, often well below that of a Gulf edition of the same title. For a text of continuous reading one will not keep for twenty years, that is a rational choice. For a work of daily consultation, look first at the binding and the paper stated on the listing.

Checking an edition before buying it

The number of volumes tells you the scale of the apparatus of notes. The presence of indexes and numbering decides its use in consultation. The paper and the binding decide the life of the book. And on texts meant for memorisation, vocalisation and the size of the characters come before all the rest.

If the title you want is not listed

This page covers only what we hold in stock at this moment. Send us the title and, if you know it, the year of the edition you want: our network of booksellers covers most of the editions in circulation.

The other houses in the catalogue

Find the other publishers listed from the Publishers section.