8 Egyptian Quran Reciters to Visit Iran
They have been invited by Iran's Awaf and Charity Affairs Organization to attend more than 560 Quran recitation programs across the country.
Ahmed Shahat Ahmed Lashin, Adil al-Baz, Ali Mahmoud Al-Shamis, Muhammad Qutb Al-Tawil, Abdul Nasser Harak, Muhammad Sharafeddin, Muhammad al-Mahmoud al-Mariji, and Mutawali Abdulal will be in Iran on July 5-22.
They will attend Quran recitation sessions arranged to be organized by the Awqaf and Charity Affairs Organization in mosques, holy sites, government institutions and religious centers in different provinces.
This is while head of Egypt's Association of Quran Reciters had recently said that the country's Quran reciters must not travel to Iran.
Sheikh Muhammad Tablawi called on Sheikh of Al-Azhar Islamic Center Ahemd Al-Tayyeb and Egypt's Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Minister Muhammad Mukhtar Guma to prevent Egyptian Qaris and the scholars of Al-Azhar from going to Iran and Iraq.
Furthermore, the presiding council of the association revoked the membership of four Qaris because of their trip to Iran and Iraq and their recitation of Adhan (call to prayers) the Shia style.
Sheikh Ahmed Ahmed Noaina, Sheikh Taha Muhammad Al-Numani, Sheikh Muhammad Abdul Wahhab Tantawi and Sheikh Yasser Abdul Basit Abdul Samad were the four banned reciters.
