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A qāriʾ (Arabic: قَارِئ, lit. 'reader', plural قُرَّاء qurrāʾ or قَرَأَة qaraʾa) is a person who recites the Quran with the proper rules of recitation (tajwid).

Although it is encouraged, a qāriʾ does not necessarily have to memorize the Quran, just to recite it according to the rules of tajwid with melodious sound.

The quadrumvirate of El Minshawy, Abdul Basit, Mustafa Ismail, and Al-Hussary are generally considered the most important and famous qurrāʾ of modern times to have had an outsized impact on the Islamic world.

Notable qurrāʾ

The following list is a partial list of some notable reciters of the Qur'an:

Afghanistan

• Muhammad ibn Tayfour Sajawandi

Bangladesh

• Muhammad Ibrahim Ujani (1863–1943)
• Abdur Rahman Kashgari (1912–1971)
• Syed Muhammad Ishaq (1915–1977)
• Muhammadullah Hafezzi (1895–1987)
• Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali (1913–2008)
• Saleh Ahmad Takrim (2008–)

Egypt

Reader is referred to as Shaykh al-Maqâriʾ (Arabic: شيخ المقارئ, lit. 'Scholar of the Recitation Schools').

• Muhammad Rifat (1882–1950)
• Mohamed Salamah (1899–1982)
• Mustafa Ismail (1905–1978)
• Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary (1917–1980), Shaykh al-Maqâriʾ
• Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi (1920–1969), Shaykh al-Maqâriʾ
• Kamil Yusuf Al-Bahtimi (1922–1969)
• Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad (1927–1988)

India

• Husain Burhanuddin

Indonesia

• Maria Ulfah
• Muammar Z.A.
• Mu'min Ainul Mubarak

Iran

• Hamed Shakernejad

Kuwait

• Mishary Rashid Alafasy

Pakistan

• Shakir Qasmi (1943–2023)
• Waheed Zafar Qasmi
• Qari Ghulam Rasool
• Hassan Ali Kasi
• Syed Sadaqat Ali
• Zahir Qasmi

Saudi Arabia

• Ahmad bin Ali Al-Ajmi
• Abu Abd al-Rahman Ibn Aqil al-Zahiri
• Saud Al-Shuraim
• Abdul-Rahman Al-Sudais
• Ali ibn Abdur-Rahman al Hudhaify
• Saad al Ghamdi
• Maher Al-Mu'aiqly
• Yasser Al-Dosari

Somalia

• Abdul Rachid Soufi

References

1. Leaman, Oliver (2008). The Qur'an : an encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-32639-1.
2. Taha Shoeb (2 Feb 2018). "Khalaf from Hamzah – A look at the features of recitation of al-Qur'an by Shahzada Husain Bhaisaheb". thedawoodibohras.com. Archived from the original on 19 May 2020.
3. Ejaz Taj (6 Sep 2018). "A Meeting with the Egyptian Giants, al-Minshāwī, al-Huṣrī, Muṣṭafā Ismāʿīl and ʿAbdul-Bāsit ʿAbdus-Ṣamad". islam21c.com. Archived from the original on 18 May 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
4. "Best Quran Recitation Competition for Students Planned in Egypt". iqna.ir. 4 May 2020. Archived from the original on 19 May 2020.
5. Frishkopf, Michael (28 Dec 2009). "Mediated Qur'anic Recitation and the Contestation of Islam in Contemporary Egypt". In Nooshin, Laundan (ed.). In Music and Play of Power in the Middle East (pdf). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0754634577. Archived from the original on 19 May 2020 – via pdfslide.net.

External links

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• Free and open source Qur'an resource

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