Ibn al-Jazari

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Muhammad ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Jazari
محمد ابن محمد الجزری
Ashari[5]
Main interest(s)Qira'at, Tajwid, Hadith, History, Fiqh
Muslim leader

Abu al-Khayr Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Yusuf al-Jazari (

nisba (attributive title), Jazari, denotes an origin from Jazirat ibn 'Umar.[8]

Biography

Al-Jazari was born in Damascus on Friday 26 November 1350 (25 Ramadan 751 AH).[4]

He wrote two large poems about

Arabic: طيبة النشر), which is 1014 lines on the ten major reciters in great detail, of which he also wrote a commentary.[citation needed
]

Al-Jazari died at the age of 79 on Friday 2 December 1429 (5

]

Disciples

Ibn al-Jazari taught several students including Sidi Boushaki (1394-1453)[9]

Selected works

Al-Jazari compiled more than 90 works on qira'at (readings), ḥadīth (traditions), ta’rīkh (history) and other disciplines. These include:

  • Taḥbīr al-taysīr fī qirāʼāt al-ʻashr (تحبير التيسير في قراءات العشر)
  • Taqrīb al-Nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr (تقريب النشر في القراءات العشر)
  • Al-Tamhīd fī ʻilm al-tajwīd (التمهيد في علم التجويد)
  • Ṭayyibat al-nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr (طيبة النشر في القراءات العشر)
  • Munjid al-Muqriʼīn wa-murshid al-ṭālibīn (منجد المقرئين ومرشد الطالبين)
  • Ghāyat al-Nihāyah fī Ṭabaqāt al-Qurrāʻ (غاية النهاية في طبقات القرآء) Lexicon of the Holy Qur’ān’s Reciters [10]

See also

Notes

  1. Arabic
    : شيخ القراء
  2. Arabic
    : مقرئ المماليك
  3. Arabic: الإمام الأعظم, a title given to him by the people of Shiraz
  4. ^ a b c d e Ḥāfiẓ, Muḥammad Muṭīʻ (1995). Shaykh al-qurrāʼ al-Imām Ibn al-Jazarī (751–833). Dār al-Fikr al-Muʻāṣir. pp. 7–11.
  5. .
  6. ^ Semaan, Khalil I (1968). Linguistics in the Middle Ages: Phonetic studies in early Islam. E. J. Brill. p. 34.
  7. ^ Nelson, Kristina (2001). The art of reciting the Qur'an. American Univ in Cairo Press. p. 88.
  8. ^ Sarton, George (1962). Introduction to the History of Science (3 Vols. in 5). Krieger Pub Co. p. 1455.
  9. .
  10. ^ Ibn al-Jazarī, Shamsuddīn (1971). Bergsträsser, G. (ed.). Ghāyat al-Nihāyah fī Ṭabaqāt al-Qurrā' (in Arabic). Vol. I. Beirut: Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyah.