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Tajwid

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Also known as Tajwīd, Tajweed

thumb|235px|Muṣḥaf al-tajwīd, an edition of the Qur'an|Quran printed with colored letters to facilitate tajwid.

Wikidata facts

Instance of
cantillation
Subclass of
recitation
Part of
Tilawa
Has part
Tartil
Religion
Sufism
Operator
qāriʾ
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native label
تَجْوِيد‏ٌ
topic's main category
Category:Tajwid
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Tajwid
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Encyclopedic overview

23 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Religious obligation
  • Qur'an and hadith on tajwīd
  • Arabic alphabet and grammar
  • Emission points
  • Thickness and thinness
  • Prolongation
  • ''Sākinah'' (vowelless) letters
  • ''Nūn sākinah'' and ''tanwīn''
  • ''Iẓhār''
  • ''Iqlāb''
  • ''Idghām''
  • ''Ikhfāʼ''
  • ''Mīm sākinah''
  • ''Qalqalah''
  • ''Waṣl''
  • ''Waqf''
  • ''Ishmam''
  • See also
  • Analogous and related fields
  • References
  • Notes
  • Books and journals

thumb|235px|Muṣḥaf al-tajwīd, an edition of the Qur'an|Quran printed with colored letters to facilitate tajwid.

In the context of the recitation of the Quran, ' or ' (, ) is a set of rules for the correct pronunciation of the letters with all their qualities and applying the various traditional methods of recitation, known as . In Arabic, the term is derived from the verb (), meaning enhancement or to make something excellent. Technically, it means giving every letter its right in reciting the Quran.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tajwid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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