| Mohamed Salamah | |
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| Born | 1899 |
| Died | 1982 |
| Known for | Being a Qari; recitation of the Quran |
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Shaykh Mohamed Salamah (Arabic: محمد سلامة), born in 1899 in Musturud, Qalyubia, Egypt, and died in 1982, was a student at Al-Azhar University who memorized the Qur'an and became a Qur'anic reciter at a young age. He fought in the Egyptian Revolution of 1919 against the British. He moved to Palestine after the World War I, before returning to Egypt in the 1930s.
Shaykh Salamah was the only prominent reciter to refuse to record for radio, believing it to be forbidden, until he eventually relented in 1948. In 1937 he participated in a conference of Qur'an reciters which led to the establishment of a Reciters' Association.
He was the mentor of celebrated reciters Kamil Yusuf Al-Bahtimi and Mohamed Siddiq El-Minshawi, both of whom lived and studied in Salamah's home at one point. He also taught other prominent reciters including Sayyid Darwish, Zakariyya Ahmad, and Ali Mahmud.
References
- ^ Kristina Nelson (2001). The Art of Reciting the Qur'an. American University in Cairo Press. pp. 195–196. ISBN 9789774245947.
- الشيخ محمد سلامة.. رفض التلاوة في الإذاعة