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A qāriʾ (, plural ''qurrāʾ'' or ''qaraʾa''; feminine form: qāriʾa ) is a person who recites the
Quran The Quran, also Romanization, romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a Waḥy, revelation directly from God in Islam, God (''Allah, Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which ...
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 Sheikh Ahmad Al-Ajmi (Arabic: الشيخ أحمد بن علي بن محمد آل سليمان العجمي) is a Saudi Qāriʾ, Quran reciter and imam. Life Ahmad Al-Ajmi attended elementary school in the Al-Mohammadiya School in southern Khobar ...
* 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
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