دراسة ببليوجرافية ل (معرفة القراء الكبار على الطبقات و الأعصار)‎ لشمس الدين محمد الذهبي (673 - 748 ه)‎

Abstract EN

Ma'rifat al-Qurra'-which is also known as "Tabaqat al-Qura" -is a famous work of Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Dhahabi, one of the great historians and scholars of Hadith and Tarajim in the eighth century A.H.

in fact, the basis of this book was derived from another work of al Dhahabi called "the history of Islam", and later by some additions and changes became an independent work.

the book estimated the Qur'anic recitations with accurate reports of reciters' bibliographies and evaluating the chains of their recitations, and thus provided a precious service in verification and classification of the Qur'an reciters.

in addition the a authority of this book in its own time, its strategic position in the science of recitation made it a basis of other writings such as "Ghayat al-Nihaya" of Ibn al-Jazari, and put it the most important work in the field of reciters' bibliographies and classification of their classes up to the present time.

with comparative-descriptive method, this research has tried to study this valuable book and present a clear picture of what al-Dhahabi's did in his writing.

looking at the many studies on Ma'rifat al-Qurra' and manuscripts have remained of this book, it turns out that al-Dhahabi gradually presented three versions of his book which differed a lot from each other in the number of entries.