qira'at
Sign in to savethumb|300px|right|Live recitation of Yusuf (surah)|Surah Yusuf, verses 1-22, in Hafs an Asim at a mosque in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The Hafs an Asim qira'a is the most used reading in the world. In Islam, ' (pl. '; , 'recitations' / 'readings') refers to the ways or fashions that the Quran, the holy book of Islam, is recited. More technically, the term designates the different linguistic, lexical, phonetic, morphological and syntactical forms permitted with reciting the Quran.
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- History
- Quranic orthography
- Recitations
- Reciting
- The readings
- Criteria for canonical status
- The seven canonical qira'at
- {{anchor|The Ten Readers and their Transmitters}} "The Three after the Seven"
- Other modes of recitation
- Hafs 'an 'Asim
- {{anchor|Variations between readings}}Variations among readings
- Examples of differences between readings
- ''Qira'at'' and ''Ahruf''
- Difference between them
- {{anchor|Revelation of the Quran in seven Ahrûf}}Scriptural basis for seven Ahruf
- Disagreement
- Questions and difficulties
- Developing view of full authenticity
- Disagreement on mutawatir transmission from Muhammad
- Struggles of the {{transliteration|ar|Qurrāʾ}}
- Arabic dialect of the Quran
- Recitation of scribal errors inherited from the original Uthmanic copies
- Misunderstanding
- Rationale
- Questions
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Citations
- {{anchor|Notations}}Sources
- External links
thumb|300px|right|Live recitation of Yusuf (surah)|Surah Yusuf, verses 1-22, in Hafs an Asim at a mosque in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The Hafs an Asim qira'a is the most used reading in the world. In Islam, ' (pl. '; , 'recitations' / 'readings') refers to the ways or fashions that the Quran, the holy book of Islam, is recited. More technically, the term designates the different linguistic, lexical, phonetic, morphological and syntactical forms permitted with reciting the Quran.
Differences between include varying rules regarding the prolongation, intonation, and pronunciation of words, but also differences in stops, vowels, consonants (leading to different pronouns and verb forms), entire words and even different meanings. However, the variations don't change the overall message or doctrinal meanings of the Quran, as the differences are often subtle and contextually equivalent. also refers to the branch of Islamic studies that deals with these modes of recitation.