Ceremony Planned in Tehran to Commemorate Late Egyptian Qari
Mohammad Tqai Mirzajani, an official with Iran’s Supreme Quran Council, told IQNA that it will be organized by the country’s Quranic community at Al-Zahra (SA) religious center in the Iranian capital city.
Qalwash, who was a renowned Qari and a senior member of Egypt’s Quran Reciters and Memorizers Association, died on Thursday, February 4, at the age of 77.
He had been suffering from an illness for a long time.
Mirzajani said that in a phone conversation he made a few days before Master Qalwash’s death, the Egyptian Qari could not speak because of his illness.
But his daughter said that Qalwash was sad not to have been able to visit Iran and that he was very keen to make a trip to the Islamic Republic again soon, Mirzajani noted.
Born in 1939 into a Quranic family, Qalwash learned the entire Quran by heart in his early teenage years and started reciting the Quran in different places at the age of 16.
He became an official Qari of Egypt’s national radio and television at 24.
Qalwash travelled to different countries for Quran recitation. He was among the first Egyptian Qaris who visited Iran after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
