I noticed that Scheherazade New is missing a very important and common ligature, one that occurs very frequently in the Quranic text. It is Lam-Alef, but with a high hamza located in the center, and with a fatha over hamza.
A number of other fonts support it, such as Coranica (contains special signs for the spellings of the Cairo print edition, the first proper printed version of Quran) and the Hafs Uthmanic Script font designed by the Saudi department for Quran publishing (although the later is not purely Unicode-based).
Without this ligature, it is impossible to write the Quran in its published form in a text. The ligature is used in several words in the Quran (middle eastern editions).
An example can be seen here:
https://corpuscoranicum.de/fr/manuscripts/159/page/87v
A suggested spelling for the ligature is:
Lam+High Hamza+Alef
Or with diacritics, when used in Quranic context:
Lam+Sukun+High Hamza+Fatha+Alef
(high hamza = Unicode char x0674)
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