Showing posts with label Qur'an. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Qur'an. Show all posts

Monday, 28 May 2018

Coran - Sourates 81-114 - Cheikh Hadj Al-Mehdi - Cinquantenaire du Cheikh al-Alawi 1934-1984 - Cassette published in France in 1984


Here another beautiful recording of Qur'an recitation, this time group recitation (Qira'a Jama'iya), which is - at least in this form - special to Morocco and Algeria. In Moroccan mosques often after the morning prayer and the sunset prayer a group of believers used to remain in the mosque, often forming a circle, and to recite one hizb (a sixtieth) of the Qur'an, thus completing every month an entire recitation of the Qur'an. At least it used to be this way a few decades ago. A good part of the reciters knew at that time the Qur'an still by heart, others were reading from the book.
Here we hear the last part of the Qur'an, called Juz' 'Amma, recited under the direction of Shaikh al-Mehdi, probably in the Zawiya of the Alawiya in Mostaghanem, Algeria. Shaikh al-Mehdi was the eldest son of Shaikh Adda Bentounes (1898-1952), the successor of Shaikh Ahmed Alawi (1869-1934), and was head of the Alawiya from 1952 till his death in 1975.
Only one side of this cassette has a recording, but the recording itself is complete.


Tuesday, 15 May 2018

Haj Abderrahman ben Moussa (1908-1997) - Complete Qur'an on 60 cassettes published in Morocco, probably in the late 1980s - First set: cassettes 1 to 30



We post here - to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan - a complete Qur'an on 60 cassettes, recited by the outstanding Moroccan Qari (reciter) Haj Abderrahmane ben Moussa. In 2011 we had posted the first and last volume of this series in mp3 format. We also posted over the years a series of six volumes from a different series. See here. Now we post all 60 cassettes in flac and (better) mp3 formats.

Haj Abderrahmane ben Moussa (Abdul Rahman Benmoussa) recited in an old style, based on so-called Andalusian melodies. His recitations had a very refined musical and contemplative beauty. In this he was truly outstanding. I never heard any other reciter reciting his way. Nowadays this way of reciting seems to have disappeared. I had once an Algerian friend staying in our house. When he saw these Qur'an cassettes, he asked me to put on one of the cassettes. When he heard it he was very touched and happy. He said that this was the kind of recitation he used to hear in his childhood and that he had not heard it since decades. This friend talked to me about the beauty of these so-called Andalusian melodies, which are used in Arabo-Andalusian music, but even more so in Sama', the singing of spiritual or mystical poems of the Sufis, and by Haj Abderrahmane ben Moussa in Qur'an recitation. These are only known in Morocco and Algeria. Today one hears them only in the circles of very traditional Sufi orders.

"His full name is Abdul Rahman bin Ahmed bin Mohammed bin al-Bashir Benmoussi Hamasani Hasnawi Salawi, born in the city of Salé on August 28, 1908. Abdurrahman Benmoussa grew up in Beit Alam, where his father, the scholar Ahmed Benmoussa, was a jurist and modernizer. The memorization of the Qur'an was directed by Sheikh Abdul Hadi Ateobi, as taught to a group of elders such as Mr. Ahmed bin Abdul Nabi and Sheikh Abu Shuaib Aldakali and Mohammed bin Arabi Alawi. For a while he was at the service of King Mohammed V. Haji Abdurrahman Benmoussa used to pray in Ramadan with the king, his sons and his clan. In the framework of the construction of the Mulawiya school, Muhammad V commissioned him to teach the then crown prince Hassan II. Al- Sadeq Ma'nino (the former director of the Moroccan TV) said: The more difficult things were for King Mohammed V and the conspiracies of colonialism affected him and brought him into a state of distress, he would call Professor Abdurrahman Benmoussi to sit beside him and recite the Qur'an and recite a collection of verses. When King Mohammed V was banished to Madagascar he returned to the city of Salé. People got to know his voice through national radio, and then they got to know his image through Moroccan television in the early 1960s, which he opened and sealed with verses from the Holy Quran."


Here a short documentary in Arabic:










Vol. 5 - flac
Vol. 5 - mp3



Vol. 6 - flac
Vol. 6 - mp3








Vol. 10 - flac
Vol. 10 - mp3


Vol. 11 - flac
Vol. 11 - mp3


Vol. 12 - mp3


Vol. 13 - flac
Vol. 13 - mp3


Vol. 14 - flac
Vol. 14 - mp3




Vol. 16 - flac
Vol. 16 - mp3


Vol. 17 - flac
Vol. 17 - mp3


Vol. 18 - flac
Vol. 18 - mp3


Vol. 19 - flac
Vol. 19 - mp3


Vol. 20 - flac
Vol. 20 - mp3


Vol. 21 - flac
Vol. 21 - mp3


Vol. 22 - flac
Vol. 22 - mp3


Vol. 23 - flac
Vol. 23 - mp3


Vol 24 -flac
Vol. 24 - mp3


Vol. 25 - flac
Vol. 25 - mp3


Vol. 26 - flac
Vol. 26 - mp3


Vol. 27 - flac
Vol. 27 - mp3


Vol. 28 - flac
Vol. 28 - mp3


Vol. 29 - flac
Vol. 29 - mp3


Vol. 30 - flac
Vol. 30 - mp3

The second set we will post in about a week or 10 days, insha'Allah.