Ilyas al-Barmawi
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Ilyas al-Barmawi is a contemporary scholar of Quranic recitations and a teacher of the Quran and tajwid at the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, known for his biographical dictionary Imta' al-Fudala bi-Tarajim al-Qurra fima ba'd al-Qarn al-Thamin al-Hijri.
Identity and Career
His full lineage is Ilyas ibn Ahmad Husayn—known as al-Sa'ati—ibn Sulayman ibn Maqbul 'Ali al-Barmawi. Based in Medina, he served as an instructor of the Holy Quran and tajwid at the Prophet's Mosque.
Scholarly Contributions
Al-Barmawi focused his scholarly efforts on the documentation of Quranic reciters and the preservation of transmission lineages. He authored Imta' al-Fudala bi-Tarajim al-Qurra fima ba'd al-Qarn al-Thamin al-Hijri ("Delighting the Virtuous with Biographies of Reciters after the Eighth Century AH"), published as part of a series on the science of recitation and tajwid with an introduction by the reciter Muhammad Tamim al-Zu'bi. Completed in two volumes in 1418 AH (1998 CE), the biographical dictionary was compiled to document later generations of reciters from the era following Ibn al-Jazari up to contemporary times, placing particular emphasis on reciters associated with Medina.
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Imta al-Fudala bi-Tarajim al-Qurra fima bad al-Qarn al-Thamin al-Hijri is a biographical dictionary dedicated to documenting Quran reciters from the period following Ibn al-Jazari up to contemporary times. Published in two volumes as the second entry in the Series on the Science of Recitations and Tajwid, the work aims to record the biographies of later reciters who lived after the era covered by classical biographical works.