Abdul Sami Bayumi; An Egyptian Qari Who Strived to Promote Art of Ibtihal
This past Friday, November 17, marked the 43rd anniversary of Bayumi’s demise.
He was born in 1905 in Egypt’s Menofia Governorate. He learned the Quran at elementary school and then went to study the seven styles of Quran recitation with Sheikh Hassan Subh.
He also learned musical Maqamat (scale of tunes) and then started signing religious songs and reciting religious supplications.
Bayumi went to Cairo and soon gained fame as a qari and Ibtihal reciter.
He was among the first qaris who recorded their recitations of the Surahs of the Quran at the Near East Radio, which was established in 1940.
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He also recorded Ibtihal recitations for Egypt’s TV.
Bayumi continued reciting Ibtihal on the Quran Radio of Egypt until the last years of his life, despite the difficulties caused by his age and illness.
He died in November 1981 in Cairo and was buried at a family graveyard in the city’s al-Darasah district.
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