Qiraʼat are called readings or recitations because the Quran was originally spread and passed down orally, and though there was a written text, it did not include most vowels or distinguish between many consonants, allowing for much variation. Qiraʼat should not be confused with Tajwid-the rules of pronunciation, intonation, and caesuras of the Quran. The lines of transmission passed down from a riwaya are called turuq, and those passed down from a turuq are called wujuh. Consequently, the readers/ qurr'aʿ who give their name to Qira'at are part of a chain of transmission called a riwaya. While these readers lived in the second and third century of Islam, the scholar who approved the first seven qira'at ( Abu Bakr Ibn Mujāhid) lived a century later, and the readings themselves have a chain of transmission (like hadith) going back to the time of Muhammad. qāriʾūn or qurr'aʿ), such as Nafi‘ al-Madani, Ibn Kathir al-Makki, Abu Amr of Basra, Ibn Amir ad-Dimashqi, Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud, Hamzah az-Zaiyyat, and Al-Kisa'i. There are ten recognised schools of qiraʼat, each one deriving its name from a noted Quran reciter or 'reader' ( qāriʾ pl.

Qiraʼat also refers to the branch of Islamic studies that deals with these modes of recitation.

Differences between Qiraʼat are slight and include varying rules regarding the prolongation, intonation, and pronunciation of words, but also differences in stops, vowels, consonants (leading to different pronouns and verb forms), and less frequently entire words.

Qirāʼāt Arabic: قراءات, lit.'recitations or readings') are different linguistic, lexical, phonetic, morphological and syntactical forms permitted with reciting the holy book of Islam, the Quran.

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