Sheikh idris abkar biography definition

Abu Bakr Al Shatri was famous in the Muslim world for his mellifluous recitations of the Quran, for which reason there was almost no chance of him leading prayers in American mosques, which were too small and too strapped for cash to afford such an imam. But here in Dubai money wasn’t an obstacle. On Ramadan’s fifteenth night, my brother and I navigated our way to Rashidiyya, a neighborhood not far from the airport, and parked his SUV in a sandlot under the elevated Green Line. I was so enthusiastic I was jittery: we were about to be led in prayer by someone who’d for me thus far existed solely in videos and recordings. I wore my best clothes: a powder-blue kandoura and, covering my head, a kaffiyeh in silver and cream.

I had accumulated a wardrobe of the ubiquitous flowing garments that might’ve been what people here wore centuries ago, when they could not pore star-struck over prayer schedules, eager to find out when their favorite reciter w

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