Journal article
The controversy over reciting the Qur’ān with tones (al-qirā’ah bi-’l-alḥān)
- Abstract:
- Whether it is acceptable to recite the Qur'an with tones (al-qira'ah bi'l-alhan) touches on two larger issues, the acceptability of music and the distinctiveness of Islam from Christianity and Judaism. Various hadith reports apparently caused difficulty for traditionalists who rejected recitation with tones. The reports themselves were evidently too well established to be rejected. Sometimes they were nullified by more or less strained interpretation, sometimes by paraphrase. Early Hanbali literature is strongly opposed to recitation of the Qur'an with tones. Maliki literature also rejects it, but the Hanafi school seems to have been divided. By contrast, the earliest Shafi'i literature is permissive.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 415.3KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.31441/jiqsa.4.2019.a003
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- Publisher:
- Lockwood Press
- Journal:
- Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association More from this journal
- Volume:
- 4
- Pages:
- 85-109
- Publication date:
- 2020-06-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-01-12
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2474-8420
- Language:
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English
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pubs:950315
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pubs:950315
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950315
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2018-12-04
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- Copyright holder:
- International Qur’anic Studies Association
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © International Qur’anic Studies Association, 2020
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Lockwood Press at https://doi.org/10.31441/jiqsa.4.2019.a003
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