The project studies the history of the teaching tradition in the scholarly milieu in Qayrawan during the Fatimid period. The research will be based on manuscript evidence held in the Bibliothèque Nationale de Tunis and more precisely on marginal annotations in Qur’an fragments. Marginal and interlinear comments on selected Qur’an manuscripts will be scrutinized in order to demonstrate how such sources are lived traditions to which Muslim scholars in the Fatimid city at the X^th and XI^th centuries, studied, taught, and interpreted religious material. These teacher-student annotations include reading instructions, marginal and interlinear comments and also textual variants. Once analyzed systematically, this data will allow studying the religious beliefs in the Fatimid Kairouan and the ways the Muslims interacted with the scholarly milieu. It also allows observing the relationship between Sunnī and Shīʿī teaching networks. The result of the project will be to add to our understanding of early Islamic scholarship. The project will not only bring new knowledge, but also knowledge of different type: the lived tradition of copyists, teachers and students.