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.
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.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).