Tajwid

التجويد

Tajwid is the science of articulating the letters from their points of articulation and performing the recitation properly; al-Shatibi composed his poem 'Hirz al-Amani' — the Shatibiyya — as its comprehensive matn 1.

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Tajwid is the science of articulating the letters from their points of articulation and performing the recitation properly; al-Shatibi composed 'Hirz al-Amani wa Wajh al-Tahani' — the Shatibiyya — as its comprehensive didactic poem 1.

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The Shatibiyya of al-Qasim ibn Firruh al-Shatibi is the poem gathering the foundations of the ten canonical readings 1.

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

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  1. Matn al-Shatibiyya, al-Ghawthani edition, 5th ed. (2010)
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