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Abū al-Qāsim ibn Firruh ibn Khalaf ibn Aḥmad al-Ruʿaynī al-Shāṭibī (Arabic: أبو القاسم بن فره بن خلف بن أحمد الرعيني الشاطبي), 538–590 AH / 1144–1194 CE, was an Islamic scholar from Xàtiva (then in الشرق الاندلس or ax-Xarq al-Andalus; modern day País Valencià, Spain) who worked in the field of qira'at, Qur'an recitation methods.

Life and works

Al-Shatibi was born in 538 AH in al-Andalus (Islamic Iberia). He moved to Egypt in 574 AH where he died on 22 Jumada al-Thani 590 AH. He authored Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī, commonly known as Matn al-Shāṭibīyah. The Pakistani scholar Fateh Muhammad Panipati wrote a commentary on it entitled Inayate Rahmani. His other books include:

• Aqīlat atrāb al-qaṣāʼid fī asná al-maqāṣid
• Nāzimatuz-zuhr
• Qasīdah Dāliyah

References

Citations

1. Neuwirth 1960–2007.
2. ^ Thanvi 2019, p. 32.
3. al-Barmawi, Ilyas ibn Ahmad (2000). "فتح محمد". إمتاع الفضلاء بتراجم القراء فيما بعد القرن الثامن الهجري (in Arabic). Vol. 1. Medina: Dār al-Nadwah al-ʿĀlimiyyah. pp. 235–236.
4. Thanvi 2019, p. 34.

Sources

• Neuwirth, Angelika (1960–2007). "al-Shāṭibī". In Bearman, P.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W.P. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_6866.
• Thanvi, Izhar Ahmad (2019). ایضاح المقاصد (in Urdu). Lahore: Qir'at Academy. pp. 32–34.

Further reading

• al-Qastallani (1995). Musa, Muḥammad Ḥasan 'Aqīl (ed.). Mukhtaṣar al-Fatḥ al-mawāhibī fī manāqib al-Imām al-Shāṭibī (in Arabic) (1 ed.). Jeddah. OCLC 37921161.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Jarmi, Ibrāhīm Muḥammad (2000). al-Imām al-Shāṭibī : sayyid al-qurrāʼ (in Arabic). Damascus: Dar al-Qalam. OCLC 44586043.

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