professional class of reciters of the text of the Qur'an

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• qurrāʾ — ▪ Qurʾānic reciter (Arabic: “reciters”),singular  Qāri        ʾ, professional class of reciters of the text of the Muslim sacred scripture, the Qurʾān. In the early Islāmic community, Muḥammad s divine revelations had often been memorized by his… …   Universalium

• education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …   Universalium

• Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …   Universalium

• South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …   Universalium

• Mahabharata — This article is about the Sanskrit epic. For other uses, see Mahabharata (disambiguation). Manuscript illustration of the Battle of Kurukshetra …   Wikipedia