Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary

Career

Early life Mahmoud entered the Qur'an School at the age of four, and by age 9 He also supervised recitation centers in the al-Gharbia province. the murattal style. in the presence of the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the second Egyptian President, Gamal Abdul Nasir. in London (1976). He has recited the Qur'an in front of the United States Congress, the United Nations in 1977, and at Buckingham Palace in 1978. His last public recitals were at the Kaaba in Mecca and Masjid al Nabawi in Medina. with backing from Hussary's children, Mohammed Al-Hussary and Yasmine Al-Khayam.

At the time of his death in 1980, he left a third of his wealth to build a mosque on Al-Ajuzah Street in Cairo. conferred his grandson, Husain Burhanuddin, with the title Ḥuṣarī l-Hind .

Al-Hussary's family runs a charity called the "Shaykh al-Hussary Society" , chaired by his daughter, Yasmeen al-Khayam . The Society built Al-Hosary, the largest mosque in 6th of October City, inaugurated in October 2005, The mosque rather remarkably hosts sermons from contrarians such as Amr Khaled as well as orthodox clergy of Al-Azhar, and government ministers. The Society has been instrumental in resettling Syrian refugees in Egypt.

Al-Hussary's recordings are extensively used for Qur'anic memorization and recitation throughout the Muslim world.