Qāriʾ

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).

[1] 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.

[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.