Shaykh Sheikh ( , , , , ''shuyūkh'' ) is an honorific title in the Arabic language, literally meaning "elder (administrative title), elder". It commonly designates a tribal chief or a Muslim ulama, scholar. Though this title generally refers to me ...

Mohamed Salamah (Arabic: محمد سلامة), born in 1899 in Musturud, Qalyubia,

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, and died in 1982, was a student at

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who memorized the Qur'an and became a Qur'anic reciter at a young age. He fought in the

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against the British. He moved to

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after the

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, before returning to Egypt in the 1930s. Shaykh Salamah was the only prominent reciter to refuse to record for radio, believing it to be forbidden, until he eventually relented in 1948.الشيخ محمد سلامة.. رفض التلاوة في الإذاعة
/ref> In 1937 he participated in a conference of Qur'an reciters which led to the establishment of a Reciters' Association. He was the mentor of celebrated reciters Kamil Yusuf Al-Bahtimi and Mohamed Siddiq El-Minshawi, both of whom lived and studied in Salamah's home at one point. He also taught other prominent reciters including Sayyid Darwish,

Zakariyya Ahmad Zakariyya Ahmad (; born 1896 in Faiyum, Egypt –1961) was an Egyptian musician and composer. He mainly sang religious songs as a member of several groups from 1919 to 1929, having studied recitation of the Qur'an under the well-known Egyp ...

, and Ali Mahmud.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Salamah, Mohamed 1899 births 1982 deaths Egyptian Quran reciters Al-Azhar University alumni