Abu Musa ‘Isa Ibn Mina al-Zarqi, better known as Qalun (120-220AH),Peter G. Riddell
Early Malay Qur'anic exegical activity
p. 164. Taken from ''Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World: Transmission and Responses''. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2001. was a significant figure in the spread of the

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, or variant methods for recitation of the

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. Being one of the two primary transmitters of the canonical method of Nafi‘ al-Madani,Shady Hekmat Nasser
Ibn Mujahid and the Canonization of the Seven Readings
p. 129. Taken from ''The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur'an: The Problem of Tawaatur and the Emergence of Shawaadhdh''.

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: Brill Publishers, 2012. Claude Gilliot
Creation of a fixed text
pg. 50. Taken from ''The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an'' by

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, 2006. Qalun's recitation is currently the norm for Qur'an reading in mosques in Qatar as well as parts of Libya and Tunisia, and is quite popular among West Africans. The method of Qalun and his counterpart

Warsh Abu Sa'id Uthman Ibn Sa‘id al-Qutbi, better known as Warsh (110-197AH), was a significant figure in the history of Quranic recitation (''qira'at''), the canonical methods of reciting the Qur'an. Alongside Qalun, he was one of the two primary ...

was also the most popular method of recitation in Islamic Spain. Because he was deaf, he would detect and correct his students' mistakes, according to ibn Abu Khatim, by reading their lips; according to Yaqut, by getting so close to the student's mouth with his ear. He was born in

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in the year 738, and he died there in 835.

References

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See also

Ten readers and transmitters

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