Anas Al Emadi

He began memorising the Quran in 1988 at the Abdullah ibn Mas'ud centre in Hidd under the reciters Abd al-Halim Mahmud and Ibrahim Abdullah al-Manna'i. In Alexandria he later received from Sheikha Umm al-Sa'd Ali Najm ijazas in the Hafs 'an 'Asim reading, by the Shatibiyya and Tayyiba routes, and in Shu'ba 'an 'Asim; he also holds an ijaza in Hafs from the Algerian Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Shaqrun.

After a bachelor's degree from the College of Islamic and Arabic Studies in Dubai, he completed a doctorate with distinction at King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia in 2024, on the differences in pausing and resuming (waqf and ibtida') between the Madinah Mushaf and the Mushaf of the Kingdom of Bahrain.

In competitions he won the twenty-juz' category of Bahrain's Grand Competition in 2002 and its whole-Quran category in 2003, placed fifth at the Dubai International Holy Quran Award in 2003, and in 2004 took first place at the Sayyid Junaid Alam competition, open to the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.