Qalun

{{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Qalun ({{lang|ar|قالون}}) | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = 738CE<br />120AH | birth_place = Madina | death_date = 835CE<br />220AH | death_place = Madina | death_cause = | nationality = | citizenship = | other_names = Abu Musa ‘Isa Ibn Mina al-Zarqi | occupation = | period = | known_for = | home_town = | title = | boards =  | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards =  | website = | education = | alma_mater =  | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era = | discipline =  | sub_discipline =  | workplaces =  | doctoral_students =  | notable_students =  | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} thumb | right '''Abu Musa ‘Isa Ibn Mina al-Zarqi''', better known as '''Qalun''' (120-220AH),<ref name=malay>Peter G. Riddell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Tq1v_V4haj4C&dq=nafi%27+al+madani&pg=PA164 Early Malay Qur'anic exegical activity], p. 164. Taken from ''Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World: Transmission and Responses''. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2001. {{ISBN|9781850653363}}</ref> was a significant figure in the spread of the Qira'at, or variant methods for recitation of the Qur'an.<ref>Muhammad Ghoniem and MSM Saifullah, [http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Qiraat/the10.html The Ten Readers & Their Transmitters]. (c) Islamic Awareness. Updated January 8, 2002; accessed April 11, 2016.</ref> Being one of the two primary transmitters of the canonical method of Nafi‘ al-Madani,<ref name=malay/><ref name=shady129>Shady Hekmat Nasser, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Kx7i2Y56WuYC&dq=aasim+qira%27ah&pg=PA57 Ibn Mujahid and the Canonization of the Seven Readings], p. 129. Taken from ''The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur'an: The Problem of Tawaatur and the Emergence of Shawaadhdh''. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2012. {{ISBN|9789004240810}}</ref><ref name=gill>Claude Gilliot, [https://books.google.com/books?id=F2oLiXT_66EC&dq=hamzah+al+kufi+qira%27at&pg=PA50 Creation of a fixed text], pg. 50. Taken from ''The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an'' by Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. {{ISBN|9780521539340}}</ref> Qalun's recitation is currently the norm for Qur'an reading in mosques in Qatar as well as parts of Libya and Tunisia, and is quite popular among West Africans. The method of Qalun and his counterpart Warsh was also the most popular method of recitation in Islamic Spain.<ref>L. P. Harvey, [https://books.google.com/books?id=U-kQJr-D_ikC&dq=qalun&pg=PA145 Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614], pg. 145. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. {{ISBN|9780226319650}}</ref>

Because he was deaf, he would detect and correct his students' mistakes, according to ibn Abu Khatim, by reading their lips; according to Yaqut, by getting so close to the student's mouth with his ear.<ref>{{Cite web|title=KĀLÛN - TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi|url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/kalun|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> He was born in Medina in the year 738,<ref name=malay/> and he died there in 835.<ref name=shady129/><ref name=gill/>

== See also == === Ten readers and transmitters === *Nafi‘ al-Madani **Qalun **Warsh *Ibn Kathir al-Makki **Al-Bazzi **Qunbul *Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala' **Ad-Duri **Al-Susi *Ibn Amir ad-Dimashqi **Hisham ibn Ammar **Ibn Dhakwan *Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud **Shu'bah **Hafs *Hamzah az-Zaiyyat **Khalaf **Khallad *Al-Kisa'i **Abū al-Ḥārith ibn Khālid al-Layth **Ad-Duri *Abu Ja'far **'Isa ibn Waddan **Ibn Jummaz *Ya'qub al-Yamani **Ruways **Rawh *Khalaf]] **Ishaq **Idris

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