This article is about the 12th-century Quran scholar. For the 14th-century Maliki legal scholar, see
Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi.
Abū al-Qāsim ibn Firruh ibn Khalaf ibn Aḥmad al-Ruʿaynī al-Shāṭibī (
Arabic: أبو القاسم بن فره بن خلف بن أحمد الرعيني الشاطبي), 538–590
AH / 1144–1194 CE, was an
Islamic scholar from
Xàtiva (then in الشرق الاندلس or ax-Xarq al-Andalus; modern day
País Valencià, Spain) who worked in the field of qira'at,
Qur'an recitation methods.[1]
Life and works
Al-Shatibi was born in 538
AH in
al-Andalus (Islamic Iberia).[2] He moved to Egypt in 574 AH where he died on 22
Jumada al-Thani 590 AH.[2] He authored Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī, commonly known as Matn al-Shāṭibīyah. The Pakistani scholar
Fateh Muhammad Panipati wrote a commentary on it entitled Inayate Rahmani.[3] His other books include:[4]
^al-Barmawi, Ilyas ibn Ahmad (2000). "فتح محمد". إمتاع الفضلاء بتراجم القراء فيما بعد القرن الثامن الهجري (in Arabic). Vol. 1.
Medina: Dār al-Nadwah al-ʿĀlimiyyah. pp. 235–236.