Qāriʾ

A qāriʾ (قَارِئ, plural قُرَّاء qurrāʾ or قَرَأَة qaraʾa) is a person who recites the Quran with the proper rules of recitation (tajwid).

Although it is encouraged, a qāriʾ does not necessarily have to memorize the Quran, just to recite it according to the rules of tajwid with melodious sound.

Notable qurrāʾ
The following list is a partial list of some notable reciters of the Qur'an:

Afghanistan

 * Muhammad ibn Tayfour Sajawandi

Bangladesh

 * Muhammad Ibrahim Ujani (1863–1943)
 * Abdur Rahman Kashgari (1912–1971)
 * Syed Muhammad Ishaq (1915–1977)
 * Muhammadullah Hafezzi (1895–1987)
 * Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali (1913–2008)
 * Saleh Ahmad Takrim (2008–)

Egypt
Reader is referred to as Shaykh al-Maqâriʾ [6] (Arabic: شيخ المقارئ, lit. 'Scholar of the Recitation Schools').
 * Muhammad Rifat (1882–1950)
 * Mohamed Salamah (1899–1982)
 * Mustafa Ismail (1905–1978)
 * Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary (1917–1980), Shaykh al-Maqâriʾ
 * Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi (1920–1969), Shaykh al-Maqâriʾ
 * Kamil Yusuf Al-Bahtimi (1922–1969)
 * Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad (1927–1988)

India

 * Husain Burhanuddin

Indonesia

 * Maria Ulfah
 * Muammar Z.A.
 * Mu'min Ainul Mubarak

Iran

 * Hamed Shakernejad

Kuwait

 * Mishary Rashid Alafasy

Pakistan

 * Shakir Qasmi (1943–2023)
 * Waheed Zafar Qasmi
 * Qari Ghulam Rasool
 * Hassan Ali Kasi
 * Syed Sadaqat Ali
 * Zahir Qasmi

Saudi Arabia

 * Ahmad bin Ali Al-Ajmi
 * Abu Abd al-Rahman Ibn Aqil al-Zahiri
 * Saud Al-Shuraim
 * Abdul-Rahman Al-Sudais
 * Ali ibn Abdur-Rahman al Hudhaify
 * Saad al Ghamdi
 * Maher Al-Mu'aiqly
 * Yasser Al-Dosari

Somalia

 * Abdul Rachid Soufi