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Al-Qasim al-Shatibi, Poet of the seven readings

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Al-Qasim al-Shatibiالقاسم بن فيرة الشاطبي

Approximate dateCairo

A blind Andalusian whose poem al-Shatibiyyah is how students still learn the seven readings.

From Xativa in al-Andalus, he settled in Cairo, where Salah al-Din's chief minister al-Qadi al-Fadil made him head of his school. His poem Hirz al-Amani, known as al-Shatibiyyah, sets out the seven readings in about 1,170 lines.

What grew out of it?

Reciters who master the seven readings still memorise his poem.

Who else is linked?

Cairo and FustatAyyubids

Who lived at the same time?

ShirkuhAl-AdidAl-MustanjidAl-MustadiNur al-Din ZengiSalah al-DinGuy of LusignanAl-Muqtafi

Source: history

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