Qāriʾ

Template:Short description Template:Quran A qāriʾ (Template:Langx, plural qurrāʾ or qaraʾa; feminine form: qāriʾa Template:Langx) 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 [6] (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

External links

• Qur'an recitation
• Free and open source Qur'an resource