Introduction to the Science of Readings

Author's name: Dr. Abdul Qayyum Al-Sindi

This book defines the science of readings and its terminology, such as choice, narration, face, path, principles, and variations. It explains the source of the readings, the importance of the science of readings, its merits and benefits. It differentiates between the Qur’an and the readings, explains the relationship of the readings to the seven letters, traces the origin of the science of readings and the stages it went through, explains the conditions for the validity of the reading, and the types of readings in terms of validity. It discusses what was said about the reasons for the difference in the readings, the issue of preference between them, and the doubts raised about them. It explains the methods of receiving the readings and the authorization in them, the sciences related to the science of readings and its effect on them, and provides biographies of the ten imams of reading, their narrators, their methods, and the most prominent scholars of the readings who authored them. It explains the principles of the ten readings, mentions their chains of transmission, and the most important works on the readings.

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