Late Qari Farajullah Shazli’s Quranic Heritage Donated to Egyptian Radio

IQNA – A collection of cultural property and personal Quranic heritage of late Sheikh Farajullah Shazli, one of Egypt’s renowned qaris, was donated to the country’s Quran Radio.

The Quran Radio was given the collection with the aim of preserving it in the country’s Quran reciters’ museum, which is set to open soon.

It is in line with the Egyptian National Media Organization’s efforts to preserve the religious heritage and historical achievements of the country’s great Quran reciters.

The ceremony to donate this collection to the Egyptian Quran Radio was attended by Ismail Dwidar, the head of the media and the public relations department of the Quran Radio.

As part of the preparations for the opening of the museum, the Egyptian Quran Radio had previously received some of the belongings of Sheikh Shaaban al-Sayyad and Sheikh Muhammad Ahmed Shabib, two other prominent Egyptian reciters.

Born in 1948, Shazli memorized the Quran at the age of eight. He joined the Egyptian Recitation Center in 1971 and graduated in 1979.

Sheikh Shazli continued his studies at the Faculty of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Al-Azhar, where he obtained his doctorate with distinction in 2004.

He was the Imam of the Ahmadi Mosque in Tanta and worked as an ambassador of the Quran in many countries around the world, and was a Quran master, international reciter and referee and a faculty member of Al-Azhar University.

He travelled to many countries, including Iran to recite the Quran and served as member of panels of judges in Iran’s international Quran contests.

Shazli, who was the deputy head of Egypt’s Quran Reciters Union died at the age of 69 in Armania village, Beheira Governorate, north of Egypt, on June 5, 2017.

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