Ibn al-Jazari

Abu al-Khayr Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Yusuf al-Jazari (أبو الخير شمس الدين محمد بن محمد بن محمد بن علي بن يوسف الجزري, 26 November 1350– 2 December 1429) was a scholar in the field of the qira'at of the Qur'an, whom al-Suyuti regarded as the "ultimate authority on these matters". His works on tajwid and qira'at are considered classics. The nisba (attributive title), Jazari, denotes an origin from Jazirat ibn 'Umar.

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

He wrote two large poems about Qira'at and tajwid. One was "Durrat Al-Madiyyah" (الدرة المضية), in the readings of three major reciters, added to the seven in the Shatibiyyah, making it ten. The other is "Tayyibat An-Nashr" (طيبة النشر), which is 1014 lines on the ten major reciters in great detail, of which he also wrote a commentary.

Al-Jazari died at the age of 79 on Friday 2 December 1429 (5 Rabi' al-awwal 833 AH) in Shiraz, Iran.

Disciples
Ibn al-Jazari taught several students including Sidi Boushaki (1394-1453)

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