Qāriʾ

A qāriʾ (, plural ''qurrāʾ'' or ''qaraʾa''; feminine form: qāriʾa ) 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.

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)
* Qari Ghulam Rasool
* Hassan Ali Kasi
* Syed Sadaqat Ali
* Zahir Qasmi

Saudi Arabia

* Ali Abdullah Jaber (1954-2005)
* Muhammad Ayyub (1952-2016)
* 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

External links

Qur'an recitation

Free and open source Qur'an resource

Qari

Islamic terminology

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