Qalwash a Legendary Reicter, Master Noaina Says
Speaking to IQNA, Noaina said Qalwash was an innovative figure and had his own style in Quran recitation,
He had many students who learned his Quran recitation style, Noaina added.
He said Qalwash was renowned and had a special status not only in the Muslim world but all over the world.
"The level of Master Qalwash’s Qara’at (recitation) was excellent and he is considered a Quran recitation school that has many fans among Egypt’s Quran reciters,” Noaina underlined.
He further highlighted Master Qalwash’s popularity among Egyptian people as well as Iranians, noting that the late Qari made several trips to the Islamic Republic and recited the Quran in the country’s Quranic circles.
He also had close relations with the Iranian Quranic community, Master Noaina went on to say.
Qalwash, who died on Thursday at the age of 77, was a senior member of the Arab country’s Quran Reciters and Memorizers Association.
He had been suffering from an illness for a long time.
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.
