Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

7/1/1976 - 12/31/1976

Funding Totals

$19,128.00 (approved)
$19,128.00 (awarded)


A Study of Qur'an Recitation and Reciters in Egypt

FAIN: FA-11356-76

Frederick M. Denny
University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, CO 80303-1058)

Project will focus on the Qur'an in its living context of ritual recitation. Study will take place in Cairo, the acknowledged center of the finest chanting in the Muslim world. The outcome of the study will be a book which will be a valuable new interpretative framework for comparative religion study on the world(s) of Islam.