About Sayyid Mutawalli Abdel A'al
Sheikh Sayyid Mutawalli Abdel A'al (al-Sayyid Mutawalli Abd al-Al, 1947–2015) was an Egyptian Quran reciter from Sharqia Governorate. Starting out at religious gatherings and funerals in his village, he became known across Egypt from the 1980s and then throughout the Arab and Muslim world, through his cassette recordings and his Ramadan recitals abroad.
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Education
He was born on 26 April 1947 in al-Fadadna, a village in the Faqous district, into a farming family; his parents, who already had four daughters, dedicated him to the Quran from an early age. At five he began memorising it at the village Quran school under Sheikha Maryam al-Sayyid Rizq, while also attending primary school, and he knew the whole Quran by heart at twelve. He then studied tajwid and the rules of recitation with Sheikh al-Sawi Abd al-Mu'ti and Sheikh Taha al-Wakil, and later succeeded al-Sawi as the village's official reciter.
Career
In the early 1960s he was reciting for one Egyptian pound at religious occasions and wakes in the area. After 1980, cassette recordings carried his voice to other governorates and abroad. He recorded for several Arab and Islamic radio stations, shared the stage with leading reciters such as Mustafa Ismail, Mahmoud Ali Al Banna and Abdelbasset Abdessamad, and travelled to Arab, Muslim and African countries to recite in major mosques during Ramadan. He was especially popular in Iran, Jordan and the Gulf states, a reception he regarded as the greatest achievement of his life.
He died on Thursday, 16 July 2015, in his home village of al-Fadadna.
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- Egypt
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