Maria Ulfah

For the women's emancipation figure, see Maria Ulfah Santoso.
Maria Ulfah
ماريا أولفا
Born (1955-12-21) December 21, 1955 (age 68)
Lamongan, East Java, Indonesia
Known forQāriʾah (female reciter of the Quran)
Musical career
InstrumentVocal
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Maria Ulfah (Arabic: ماريا أولفا; born 21 December 1955) is an Indonesian qāriʾah (reciter of the Quran) and manager of the Central Institute for the Development of Quranic Recitation.[1] She is the winner of two Indonesian national Qur'an recitation contests and is internationally recognized as one of the world's master reciters and teachers of recitation.[2][3][4][5] She is also a lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Qur'an and at the National Islamic University in Indonesia,[3][6] as well as the first woman to win an international Qur'an recitation award in Malaysia in 1980.[5] She's considered an internationally significant figure in the field,[7] and has been referred to as Southeast Asia's premier female reciter of the Qur'an.[8]

  1. ^ Special Talk and Recital "The Sacred Book in Islam, the Holy Quran, and its Recitation" Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine, National Institutes for the Humanities, Kyoto University Yoshida Campus. Accessed May 9, 2016.
  2. ^ David D. Harnish and Anne Rasmussen, Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia, pgs. 123 and 343. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 9780195385427
  3. ^ a b Sells, Michael (1999). Approaching the Qur'an. Ashland, Oregon: White Cloud Press. ISBN 1-883991-26-9.
  4. ^ Useem, Andrea. "In Islam, a Vocal Exercise of Faith". Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
  5. ^ a b Kathryn M. Coughlin, Muslim Cultures Today: A Reference Guide, pg. 87. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006. ISBN 9780313323867
  6. ^ Durkee, Noura (May–June 2000). "Recited from the Heart". Saudi Aramco World. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
  7. ^ R. Michael Feener, Islam in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, pg. 209. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004. ISBN 9781576075166
  8. ^ Anne Rasmussen, The Juncture between Creation and Re-creation among Indonesian Reciters of the Qur'an, pg. 75. Taken from Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society. Eds. Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. ISBN 9780252076541