Abu Amr al-Dani

Abu Amr al-Dani (981–1053) was an Andalusi scholar of the Quran, born in Córdoba, who settled in Dénia under its ruler Mujahid al-Amiri. He wrote more than a hundred works on Quran recitation, orthography and the seven canonical readings, of which al-Taysir became a standard textbook. His work shaped the teaching of Quranic recitation across the western Islamic world for centuries.