The Quranic Readings School in Andalusia and its most famous scholars from the 1st century AH to the 9th century AH (7 AD /15 AD)

Abstract

If the readings are the words of God, then the knowledge in them is the most honorable of speech, and that since the revelation of the Noble Qur’an to the Noble Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and the nation pays great attention to this book with great care and know-how. There are great efforts in preserving the text of the Qur’an in its collection and writing, and its transmission with a frequent chain of narrators, and it is equivalent to an effort no less than in conveying the character of its reading as the prophet recited it to his companions until it reached us tender as it was revealed whether the readings originated in Makkah or Madinah, they passed through many stages that overlapped each other until they became established as one of the sciences of the Qur’an, for this reason, our scholars, may God Almighty have mercy on them, set rules and foundations upon which the science of readings is based, especially after the reading has known different faces and started to take its ways in the narration and its path in transmission. Despite these differences, some people devoted themselves to reading and caring for it with the utmost care until they became Imams to be emulated, traveled to, and taken from them, so they established schools in the readings. Among these people are scholars who took it upon themselves to teach the people of the land of the Spaniards, after it became part of the Islamic homeland, the Noble Quran, and religious sciences, and this was the beginning of the establishment of a school of readings in Andalusia.