Qiraʼat

In Islam, Qirāʼah, (pl. Qiraʼat ) (Arabic: قِراءة‎, lit. 'recitations or readings') which are "different linguistic, lexical, phonetic, morphological and syntactical forms permitted with reciting" the holy book of Islam, the Quran. 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. Qiraʼat also refers to the "branch of Islamic studies" that deals with these modes of recitation.

Qiraʼat

In Islam, Qirāʼah, (pl. Qiraʼat ) (Arabic: قِراءة‎, lit. 'recitations or readings') which are "different linguistic, lexical, phonetic, morphological and syntactical forms permitted with reciting" the holy book of Islam, the Quran. 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. Qiraʼat also refers to the "branch of Islamic studies" that deals with these modes of recitation.