Hamze Esfahani's unknown, irregular reading of Quran as reflected in the book

Since the early periods, Quran scholars have paid special attention to the issue of different ways of reading Quran. In this regard they have offered various methods to evaluate different readings and to identify the valid and irregular ones. They have tackled the issue from different angles and as a result, have created different schools and views most of which can be categorized under modern linguistics. For this reason, such ancient readings with special linguistic values are worthy of receiving scientific attention. Hamze Esfahani is one of the figures who has reflected some of the unknown readings of Quran in his book titled al-Tanbih Ala Huduth al-Tashif. Some of these readings cannot be found in any other works devoted to Quranic unknown readings. In this essay, relying on the Hamze Esfahani's accounts and other historical proofs reflecting his era, his principles in evaluating different Quranic readings in comparison with other Quran scholars of his time, have been extracted and then judged.