Shasha’i Son’s Recitation Broadcast on Egyptian Quran Radio
It is broadcast on the famous Quran Radio program “Grapes from the Gardens of Faith”.
Sheikh Ibrahim Shasha'i, a prominent Egyptian qari, was born in 1930 in the Darb Al-Ahmar neighborhood, one of the historical districts of Cairo.
He was the son of Sheikh Abdel Fattah Shasha'i, and his family was originally from the village of Shasha'a, in the Ashmoun district of Menoufia province, Egypt.
Sheikh Abdel Fattah moved to Cairo and settled in the Darb al-Ahmar neighborhood, where Sheikh Ibrahim was born. He was known as a great reciter and the son of a great sheikh.
Sheikh Ibrahim memorized the Holy Quran as a child and learned the sciences and recitation of the Quran. One of his most prominent teachers was Muhammad Suleiman al-Shandawi, the senior reciter of the Imam Hussein (AS) Mosque in Cairo. He also learned Arabic music and vocal maqams at the Fouad I Music Institute.
The star of this Egyptian reciter began to rise alongside his father in the early 1950s. After his father's death in 1962, Ibrahim succeeded him at the Sayyidah Zainab Mosque in Egypt and joined Egypt’s Quran Radio as a reciter in 1967.
The young Shasha'i acknowledged the profound influence of his father's recitation style, emphasizing that his father had been influenced by the style of Sheikh Ahmed Nada, a reciter of the generation before Sheikh Rifaat.
Sheikh Ibrahim was admired for his deep, rich voice, his recitation in a vernacular narration, his mastery of the rules of waqf and iqama, and his poise and dignity in his recitation.
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He followed in his father's footsteps, displaying eloquent recitation, powerful performance, and adherence to the rules of Tajweed. He left behind valuable recordings of his recitations that are still played today.
The Egyptian reciter traveled the Arab and Islamic world as an ambassador of the Holy Quran, attending Quranic gatherings in various countries during the nights of Ramadan.
Sheikh Ibrahim Shasha'i died on June 9, 1992.
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