The word · The Qur’an
التَّدْوير
Tadwir
The middle speed of recitation, sitting between the slow tartil and the quick hadr.
Also written · Tadweer · Tadwer · Tadwir recitation · medium speed recitation · middle pace · Tadwir Quran · Tadweer recitation · moderate speed recitation
The meaning
What Tadwir means in Islam
It keeps every rule of tajwid fully in place while moving at a working pace. This is how most imams recite in tarawih and how most students revise. All three speeds are permitted; what is not permitted is speed that swallows letters.
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Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- TartilReciting slowly and distinctly, giving every letter its right, as the Qur'an itself instructs.التَّرْتيل
- HadrFast recitation that still keeps every rule intact, used mainly when revising memorisation.الحَدْر
- TajwidThe rules for pronouncing the Qur'an correctly: each letter from its place, with its proper qualities.التَّجْويد
- TarawihThe night prayer of Ramadan, prayed in congregation after Isha through the month.تَراويح
More from The Qur’an
- Al-Ahruf as-Sab'ahThe seven modes in which the Qur'an was revealed, an ease for the community; what a mode is stays disputed.الأَحْرُفُ السَّبْعَة
- HifzMemorising the Qur'an by heart, traditionally with a teacher who hears you every day.الحِفْظ
- IzharPronouncing a nun sakinah or tanwin clearly, with no nasal hum, before one of six throat letters.الإِظْهار
- MufassalThe last stretch of the Qur'an, from about Surah Qaf to the end, made up of shorter surahs.المُفَصَّل
- QariA reciter of the Qur'an; in the classical sense, one trained and certified in a particular reading.القارِئ
- Ta'wilInterpretation, and in a second sense the reality a statement finally turns out to refer to.التَّأْويل