[3] The process of creating the Fu'ad Quran lasted 17 years, from 1907 to 1924, achieved with the support by Fuad I of Egypt and the supervision of Azhari scholars.
[3] A committee of leading professors from Al-Azhar University[4] had started work on the project in 1907 but it was not until 10 July 1924 that the "Cairo Qur’an" was first published by Amiri Press under the patronage of Fuad I of Egypt,[5][6] as such, it is sometimes known as the "royal (amīriyya) edition.
"[7] The goal of the government of the newly formed Kingdom of Egypt was not to delegitimize the other methods of recitation, but to eliminate that, which the colophon labels as imprecise typefaces, found in Qur’anic texts used in state schools.
Its publication has been called a "terrific success", and the edition has been described as one "now widely seen as the official publishing methods of the Qur’an", and is popular among both Sunni and Shia Muslims.
[9] Ingrid Mattson credits mass-produced printing press mushaf with increasing the availability of the written Quran but also diminishing the diversity of qira'at.