Legendary Egyptian Qari Minshawi Commemorated in Tanzania
The Muslim World Association organized the event, which was attended by Minshawi’s son and Al-Azhar Islamic University professor Omar Muhammad Minshawi, Akhbar al-Yawm website reported.
Omar said the ceremony that a large number of his family’s members are memorizers and reciters of the Quran.
He noted that his father memorized the entire Quran at the age of 9 and that he learned Quran recitation from his father and was influenced by Sheikh Muhammad Rif’at, another legendary qari of Egypt.
As for his own Quran recitation, Omar said his Lahn and Sawt are very much like those of his father.
Born on January 20, 1920 in the city of Al Minshah in Sohag Governorate of Egypt, Sheikh Muhammad Sidiq Minshawi was raised in a family of Quran reciters.
He learned the entire Quran by heart at the age of 9 and a year later began learning Quran recitation.
Minshawi soon became a prominent Qari both in the styles of Tahqiq and Tarteel.
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He traveled to many countries, including Indonesia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Sudan, for Quran recitation.
Minshawi died in 1969 at the age of 49.
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