al-Shatibi (Qiraat)

Abu Muhammad Qasim ibn Firruh al-Shatibi al-Ru'ayni (538-590H / 1144-1194 CE) was an Andalusian scholar who became blind in childhood but memorized the entire Quran and became a foremost authority in Quranic recitation and other sciences. His famous poem Hirz al-Amani wa Wajh al-Tahani (also called al-Shatibiyyah) contains 1,173 verses encoding the rules of all Seven Canonical Recitations — a feat of mnemonic Arabic poetry that has been memorized and taught for 800 years. He also composed a poem on Hadith methodology (Aqila Atrabi al-Qasa'id). He moved from al-Andalus to Egypt and became a teacher at the Fatimid Azhar.