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Marijn van PuttenPublished On
2026-02-04Page Range
pp. 69–146Language
- Arabic
- English
Print Length
78 pages
U. Preamble and General Principles
Chapter of: al-Dānī's al-Taysīr fī al-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ: A Translation with Linguistic Commentary(pp. 69–146)
This section is a translation of the preamble and general principles (ʾUṣūl) of the Taysīr. It introduces the seven canonical readers and their transmission paths back to the prophet muhammad, as well as the transmission paths from the author back to the seven readers. After this the section transitions to the general phonological and morphological features of each of the seven reading traditions.
Contributors
Marijn van Putten
(author)Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics at Leiden University
Marijn van Putten is assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His research focuses on the linguistics, and transmission history of the Quranic text and the Quranic reading traditions. Besides this, he also researches the linguistic history of Arabic and Berber. He is currently the PI of the ERC Consolidator project: QurCan: The Canonization of the Quranic Reading Traditions.