The Qur'anic Readings: an early copy by an Andalusian author

Dani, 'Uthman ibn Sa'id (Abu 'Amr) al-. Al-Taysir fi al-qira'at al-sab'.

€ 65.000,00

Very early manuscript of this important and widely received work on the Qur'anic science of the seven canonical qira'at ("recitations" or "readings"), the various linguistic, lexical, phonetic, morphological and syntactical forms permitted with reciting the Qur'an. It was the most famous of the author's works and certainly the most influential; by the 12th century it had even been set into verse.

Born in Cordoba in Muslim Spain, 'Uthman ibn Sa'id al-Dani (981-1053 CE) was an expert scholar in the Qur'anic sciences and of Arabic, as well as a Maliki lawyer and the founder of his own school of Qur'an recitation. In Cordoba he witnessed the sacking of the city during two Berber uprisings against Umayyad rule, after which he lived in various other cities across al-Andalus, where he was patronized by sultans. His education took him across the Muslim world, from Kairouan to Cairo to Mecca, and he authored no fewer than 73 books both on the Qur'anic sciences and other subjects. The versified version of this work is known as the Shatibiyya, after its author, al-Shatibi (1144-1194 CE), a fellow scholar from Muslim Spain.