Muhammad ibn Tayfour Sajawandi

ʿAbū ʿAbdullāh Muhammad Ibn ʿAbū Yazīd Tayfūr Sajāvandī Ghaznavī (Persian: ابو عبدالله محمد ابن ابو یزید طیفور سجاوندی غزنوی), also known as Abū al-Fazl as-Sajāwandī al-Qāriʾ[1] (Arabic: أبو الفضل السجاوندي القارئ) (died 1165 CE or 560 AH)[2] was a 12th-century Islamic scholar, mystic, Qāriʾ and theologian.

[4] His son Ahmad ibn Muhammad Sajawandi was also a well-known chronicler, commentator on the Quran, poet and orator.

[6] His full name is Abu'l Fazl Muḥammad Ibn Ṭayfūr Sajāwandī Ghaznavī (Persian: ابوالفضل محمد ابن طیفور سجاوندی غزنوی), though in short form he is commonly known simply by this nasab Ibn Ṭayfūr ("son of Tayfour") Sajāwandī.

He is likewise attested with a number of honorifics such as Shams ad-Dīn (Arabic: شمس الدين "Sun of the Islamic Faith"), Burhān ud-Dīn (Arabic: برهان الدین "Proof/ Witness of the Islamic Faith")[7] and Shams ul-'Ārefīn (Persian/ Perso-Arabic: شمس العارفین "Sun of the Saints").

Sajawandi, in his book Kitāb al-Waqf wa al-Ibtidāʾ, identified five degrees to which recommendation to whether or not pausing in-between recited sentences may alter the understood meaning of the section of text or not.