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Aqāriʾ (Arabic:قَارِئ,lit. 'reader', pluralقُرَّاءqurrāʾ orقَرَأَةqaraʾa; feminine form:qāriʾaArabic:قَارِئَة) is a person who recites theQuran with the proper rules of recitation (tajwid).[1]
Although it is encouraged, a qāriʾ does not necessarily have tomemorize the Quran, just to recite it according to the rules oftajwid with melodious sound.
The quadrumvirate ofAl-Minshawy,Abdul Basit,Mustafa Ismail, and Al-Hussary are generally considered the most important and famous reciters of modern times to have had an outsized impact on theIslamic world.[2][3][4][5]: 83
The following list is a partial list of some notable reciters of the Qur'an:
Reader is referred to as Shaykh al-Maqâriʾ [6] (Arabic:شيخ المقارئ,lit. 'Scholar of the Recitation Schools').
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