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How to Learn Qirāʾāt with an Ijāzah: The Complete Path for the Serious Student

How to Learn Qirāʾāt with an Ijāzah

A student sent me a message at eleven o’clock on a …

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Types of Differences Between Qirāʾāt

A student of qirāʾāt came to his teacher frustrated. He had …

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How Early Mufassirūn Used Qirāʾāt

A graduate student of tafsir sat in the library for the …

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The Relationship Between Qirāʾāt and Sunnah

A student came to his teacher with a question that had …

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Qirāʾāt and Arabic Morphology (Ṣarf)

A student of Arabic morphology sat with his teacher, parsing verbs …

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Qira'at and Tafsir: How Recitation Traditions Deepen Quranic Interpretation

Qira’at and Tafsir: How Recitation Traditions Deepen Quranic Interpretation

A student of tafsir sat with his teacher, working through a …

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Who Was Imam Nafi' al-Madani? The Man Whose Recitation Reaches Over 100 Million Muslims Daily

Who Was Imam Nafi’ al-Madani?

Every morning in Morocco, Algeria, West Africa, Libya, and Tunisia, millions …

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Rules of Madd in Qira'at Qalun: A Complete Technical Guide

Rules of Madd in Qira’at Qalun

A student learning Qalun for the first time made a classic …

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Chains of Transmission (Isnad) in Qur'anic Recitation: The Living Bridge to the Prophet

Chains of Transmission (Isnad) in Qur’anic Recitation

A student once received her ijazah in the qira’ah of Hafs …

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Tajweed Rules Specific to Qalun: A Complete Technical Guide

Tajweed Rules Specific to Qalun

A student of Qalun ‘an Nafi’ made a common mistake in …

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The Differences Between Qalun and Hafs: Two Authentic Transmissions, One Qur'an

The Differences Between Qalun and Hafs

A scholar who knew the Qur’an in Hafs sat with a …

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The Differences Between Qalun and Warsh: Two Riwayat of the Same Imam

The Differences Between Qalun and Warsh

A student was studying Nafi’s qira’ah seriously for the first time. …

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