Department of Recitation Modes

Tajweed

This first section is a series of lessons in the science of Tajweed in an innovative style, which helps the student to understand and apply the practical rules of Tajweed, and to excel in reciting the Quran in the best way.
It is achieved through memorization, understanding, explanation, and application of the text of Tuhfat al-Atfal by the scholar Al-Jamzuri, the text of Al-Jazariyyah by Imam Ibn al-Jazari, and the Samnudiyyat, in addition to other study materials masterfully picked from reliable sources of the discipline.

Recitation Modes and Chains of Transmission

This second section teaches the successive recitation modes through memorization, understanding, explanation, and application from the following books:

Then obtaining the licenses by:
1. The narration of Hafs and Shu’bah from Asim Al-Kufi
2. The narration of Warsh and Qaloon from Nafi’ Al-Madani
3. The narration of al-Bazzi and Qunbul from Ibn Kathir Al-Makki
4. The narration of al-Duri and al-Susi from Abu Amr Al-Basri
5. The narration of Hisham and Ibn Zakwan from Abdullah bin Aamir Ash-Shami
6. The narration of Khalaf and Khallad from Hamzah Az-Zayyat Al-Kufi
7. The narration of Abu al-Harith and al-Duri from al-Kisa’i Al-Kufi
8. The narration of Ibn Jammaz and Ibn Wardan from Abu Ja’far Al-Madani
9. The narration of Ruways and Rouh from Ya’qub Al-Hadrami Al-Basri and
10. The narration of Ishaq and Idris from Khalaf Al-Ashir Al-Baghdadi, from the way of Al-Shatibiyyah and Al-Tayyibah which conclude all ten successive recitations, the small and the large, with their chains of transmission connected to the master of the two worlds Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him and his family.

Higher Specialization

This third branch covers all the specialized sciences of the Quranic recitations and is based on comprehensive and in-depth study of this discipline by studying its origin and development, their description and form in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to the present day, the link between the Quran and its recitation modes, the successive narration of the recitation modes, the authenticity of the chain of transmission, the knowledge of the anomalous and interpretive recitation modes, the context of origin, the reasons for the difference in recitation modes and the preference between them, the impact of the science of the recitation modes on other Islamic disciplines and their interdisciplinary connection, the sciences of the recitation modes such as the stop and the start, the writing style of the Quranic text and its precision, compatibility of the Quranic text with Arabic language and literature, the attribution of chains of narration and their differentiation and refinement, the classes of the reciters, in addition to the most prominent doubts raised about the recitation modes and their sciences and the response to them, etc.
This branch also teaches the textbooks of Tajweed and the approved recitations (other than those mentioned previously) from the text of It-haf Al-Bariyyah fi Taharriyat Al-Shatibiyyah by Khalaf Al-Husayni, the text of Tanqih Al-Fath Al-Karim fi Tahriraat Al-Kubra by Az-Ziyyat, the text of Al-Khaleeji and Al-Samnoodi, the book of Al-Tayseer by Imam Al-Dani, Tahbir Al-Tayseer by Imam Ibn Al-Jazari, and the book of Al-Nashr fil Qiraat Al-Ashr by Imam Ibn Al-Jazari, may Allah have mercy on them.
After complete memorization of their texts, full understanding, explanation and application, the student obtains the license with the chain of transmission connected to their authors, etc.