Read about renowned Qur’an reciter, Muhammad Siddiq Al Minshawee
Having been significantly influenced by his father, Al-Minshawi was also a protégé of Muhammad Rifat, and Muhammad Salamah, famous reciters of the 20th century. He studied the rules of recitation under Ibrahim As-Su’oodi at a young age.
He committed Qur’an to memory when he was 8 years old. He traveled to many countries outside of his homeland, including Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Palestine (Al-Aqsa Mosque ), Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Syria.
Al-Minshawi also participated in recorded recitations with the two other reciters: Kamel al-Bahtimi and Fouad al-Aroussi. He helped children with the recitation of the Quran.
Al-Minshawi married two times, he had three boys and one girl with his first wife in addition to five boys and four girls with his second wife, but in 1968, his second wife died while on a
pilgrimage.
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Al-Minshawi belongs to a family of traditional Huffaz, Calligraphers, and Qaris, and like him, his father, Seddik Al Minshawy.