Feryal Zakariya al-Abd
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Feryal Zakariya al-Abd is an Egyptian educator and author in Quranic studies, known for her handbook on recitation rules, al-Mizan fi Ahkam Tajwid al-Quran (The Scale in the Rules of Quranic Recitation) .
Career and Quranic Studies
Al-Abd served as an educational supervisor for the Arabic language in secondary education across the Central and Western educational administrations of Alexandria . She pursued her Quranic training in memorization circles under Mahmud Abd al-Hamid al-Hiti, a professor at the Faculty of Agriculture at Tanta University, from whom she learned the fundamentals and rules of tajwid and under whose guidance she memorized nearly half of the Quran .
Her handbook al-Mizan fi Ahkam Tajwid al-Quran was published by Dar al-Iman in Cairo . The work was examined and endorsed by several specialists in Quranic sciences, including Hafiz Ayyub, a former professor at Al-Azhar University's Faculty of Usul al-Din and former religious advisor to the Ministry of Defence of the United Arab Emirates, and Mahmud Dawud, supervisor of Quranic readings at the Damanhur Institute of Qira'at .
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al-Mizan fi Ahkam Tajwid al-Quran is a handbook on the rules of Quranic recitation (tajwid). It systematically presents the essential rulings of recitation for students and instructors in Quran memorization circles, covering the reading of Hafs from Asim ibn Abi al-Najud via the path of the Shatibiyyah.