al-Bāṭirqānī, Abū Bakr b. Faḍl b. Muḥammad (372–460/982–1068), was a Qurʾān reader (qāriʾ ) and traditionist (muḥaddith) from Iṣfahān. His nisba is from Bāṭirqān, a district near Iṣfahān’s Ḥasanābād gate, which is now within the city limits. The first unambiguous report regarding his education goes back to the year 387/997, when he would have been fifteen years old; it states that he studied Qurʾān recitation in Iṣfahān under the talented reciter Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Azīz al-Kisāʾī (see al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifa, 1/342; Ibn al-Jazarī, 1/96, cf. 2…