The Seven Recitations (Year 9)

the kaabah was important to the prominence of the Quryshee dialect because

• the kaabah which represented the spiritual centre for all of the Arabian tribes, housed all of the idols of the Quraysh,and thus other tribes looked up to them

• the tribal lands of the Quraish included the Kaabah which was the spiritual centre of the Arabian tribes. Consequently, they all held the Quraysh in high esteem

the seven forms of recitation of the Quraan refer to

• the seven dialects spoken by the main tribes of Arabia

• the seven ways in which the Quran was revealed

• the seven chapters of the Quran revealed for the seven major tribes of Arabia

Name the different dialects in which the Quran was revealed

Briefly explain the significance of the different readings

the time period in which the recitation of the Quran was reduced to one was

• during caliph Abu Bakr's era

• halfway through the reign of Caliph Umar

• around the midway point of Uthmaan's caliphate

only the qurashee dialect of the Quraan was kept

• because many muslims who knew the Quran were dying

• since the Qurayshee dialect became the most prominent and all of the other tribes looked up to them

• as a result of the errors made by new converts in their practice in Islam