Meet your teacher
Qari Badr
القارئ بدر
Al-Azhar graduate, Ijazah-bearing reciter, and devoted teacher. For nearly two decades, Qari Badr has guided students across five continents — from their first letters of the Arabic alphabet to the final review of their hifz.
20+
Years teaching
500+
Hifz students
4
Ijazat held
Al-Azhar
Faculty of Quran
A life with the Qur'an
The journey
1985
Born in Alexandria, Egypt — memorised the Qur'an by age 12.
2006
Joined Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Quranic Studies.
2014
Received first Ijazah; began teaching internationally.
2018
Featured on Egyptian Holy Quran Radio.
2021
Founded what would become Tarteel Quran Academy.
Credentials
Ijazat & qualifications
An Ijazah is a sacred license — an unbroken chain of teacher-to-teacher transmission stretching back to the Prophet ﷺ.
Ijazah in Hafs ʿan ʿAsim
2014
Sheikh Mahmoud Ali
Connected chain (sanad) to the Prophet ﷺ through Imam ʿAsim.
Ijazah in Qaloon ʿan Nafiʿ
2017
Sheikh Ahmed El-Tablawi
Second Qira'ah with full mastery of variant rules.
Bachelor's, Faculty of Quranic Studies
2010
Al-Azhar University
Top 5% of class. Specialization: Qira'at.
Diploma — Maqamat & Tajweed Pedagogy
2012
Egyptian Radio of the Holy Quran
Voice training and classical maqamat under master reciters.
Listen
Selected recitations
Qari Badr
Live Recitation
Qari Badr
Selected Recitations — Playlist
Qari Badr Ijaza
World-renowned scholars of the Qur'an
Moments from the granting of Qari Badr's Ijazat — an unbroken sanad connecting his recitation to the Prophet ﷺ through some of today's most respected masters.
إجازة الشيخ سعيد زعيمة
Ijazah from Sheikh Said Zaima
Ijazah · Sanad
إجازة الشيخ سيد أحمد
Ijazah from Sheikh Sayed Ahmed
Ijazah · Sanad
خَيْرُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ
"The best of you are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it."
— Sahih al-Bukhari