Al-Nashr fi al-Qira'at al-Ashr (The Publication on the Ten Readings)

Al-Nashr is Ibn al-Jazari's own early ninth-century AH, fifteenth-century CE, primary text, and its documented historical significance is specific and checkable: it is the work that settled the canon of Quranic readings at ten rather than the earlier seven, a real, traceable change in the discipline's own history rather than a claim about the author's standing alone. As a primary text it is authoritative for what this specific work states about the ten readings and their twenty transmissions. Use it to establish the content of this foundational text on the canonical readings; a claim about how a specific reading is practiced in recitation today needs a separate contemporary source.