al-Muyassar fi al-Qiraat al-Arba Ashara
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al-Muyassar fi al-Qiraat al-Arba Ashara (The Facilitated Guide to the Fourteen Quranic Readings) is a contemporary treatise on Quranic recitations authored by the Syrian scholar Muhammad Fahd Kharuf .
Subject and Scope
The work addresses the fourteen readings of the Quran (al-qira'at al-arba' 'ashara), encompassing both the ten canonical recitations and the four supplementary readings . It serves as a specialized manual detailing the variant pronunciations, canonical differences, and reading transmissions across the Quranic text .
Contents and Structure
The main text is supplemented at the end by two distinct treatises written by Kharuf himself:
- Usul al-Muyassar li-l-Qiraat al-Arba Ashar (Foundational Rules of the Facilitated Guide to the Fourteen Readings), which expounds upon the overarching phonetic and morphological principles (usul) governing the recitations .
- Tarajim al-Qurra al-Arbaata Ashar (Biographies of the Fourteen Readers), which provides concise biographical accounts of the fourteen master reciters .
Publication History
The first edition of the book was issued in 1416 AH / 1995–1996 CE in a single large volume, published jointly by Dar Ibn Kathir and Dar al-Kalim al-Tayyib in Damascus . A second edition was published in 1423 AH / 2002–2003 CE by Dar al-Kalim al-Tayyib in Damascus and Beirut .
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