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| Kulliyat al-Qiraat | |
|---|---|
| Name | Kulliyat al-Qiraat |
| Language | Arabic |
| Genre | Religious literature |
| Subject | Qur'anic recitation |
| Period | Classical Islamic period |
Kulliyat al-Qiraat. A classical Arabic work on Qur'anic recitation associated with specialized schools of Tajwid and Qira'at scholarship, the text addresses variant readings, chains of transmission, and phonetic rules relevant to liturgical performance. It occupies a place within the corpus of medieval Islamic philology alongside works produced in centers such as Kufa, Basra, and Cairo, and connects to traditions represented by figures like Imam al-Shafi'i, Ibn Mujahid, and Al-Bukhari.
The work surveys variant readings tied to authoritative transmitters including Nafi' al-Madani, Ibn Kathir al-Makki, Abu Amr al-Basri, Ibn Amir ad-Dimashqi, Asim ibn Abi al-Najud, Hamzah az-Zaiyyat, Aasim, Ibn Mujahid's canonization debates, and later interpreters such as Al-Dani and Ibn al-Jazari. Its scope engages with manuscript practices found in repositories like Topkapi Palace, Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya, and madrasa libraries in Damascus, Mecca, and Baghdad.
Attribution of the text has been contested in scholarship intersecting with biographies preserved by Ibn Khallikan, Al-Suyuti, Ibn Abi Dawud, and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. Composition likely occurred amid institutional developments at institutions such as the House of Wisdom and the network of madrasas patronized by the Abbasid Caliphate, with contemporaneous parallels in works by Ibn al-Jazari, Al-Zamakhshari, Al-Farahidi, and Ibn al-Anbari. The debate over canonical readings engaged jurists of Malik ibn Anas, Abu Hanifa, and Al-Shafi'i pedigrees and was shaped by transmission routes through cities like Medina, Kufa, Basra, and Cairo.
The text organizes material into sections on transmitters, isnads, and orthographic variants, with subunits addressing the seven and ten canonical readings as treated later by Ibn Mujahid and augmented by Ibn al-Jazari's systematizations. Its chapters juxtapose examples from codices associated with Uthman ibn Affan-era recension traditions, folk practices recorded in Cordoba, and pedagogical exercises used in madrasas such as Al-Azhar and institutions in Seville. Comparative treatment includes references to works like Tafsīr al-Tabari, Al-Kashshaf, Al-Itqan fi Ulum al-Qur'an, and phonetic analyses echoing theories from Al-Farahidi and Ibn Sina.
Surviving manuscripts appear in collections at Bibliothèque nationale de France, British Library, Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya, Suleymaniye Library, and private waqf libraries documented by cataloguers such as Charles Hamilton, Levi Della Vida, and Ignaz Goldziher. Paleographic features reflect hands trained in scripts like Naskh, Kufic, and regional orthographies used in Andalusia, Maghreb, and Hijaz. Marginalia and scholia show commentary chains linking to scholars including Al-Dani, Ibn al-Jazari, Al-Suyuti, and later Ottoman-era transmitters such as Ibn Hajar al-Haytami.
The work influenced reciters and jurists across lands under Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid, and Ottoman administrations, informing pedagogical manuals at Al-Azhar University, lesson cycles in Madrasa al-Mustansiriya, and the curricula of Sufi lodges associated with Ibn Arabi and Al-Ghazali's networks. Commentaries and glosses by figures from Cairo, Damascus, Istanbul, and Fez treated its rulings alongside treatises by Ibn Kathir, Al-Bayhaqi, Al-Tabari, and Ibn Taymiyyah, while modern scholarship at institutions like Al-Azhar University, University of Oxford, University of Cairo, and Harvard University has assessed its philological value.
Critical editions and partial transcripts have been prepared in publishing centers such as Cairo, Istanbul, Damascus, and Beirut and appear in catalogs of Brill, Cambridge University Press, and regional presses catalogued by bibliographers like Carl Brockelmann, Ignaz Goldziher, and A. F. L. Beeston. Translations and studies in European languages have been produced by scholars associated with SOAS University of London, Leiden University, University of Paris, and Columbia University, while modern Arabic editions are available from presses in Beirut and Cairo.
Category:Qur'anic recitation