Warsh

Imam
Warsh
Imam Warsh
ورش
	An early Kufic Quranic folio from the 8th century. Distinct colored dots serve as vocalization guides to distinguish between the Qira'at of Warsh (green) and Hamza (red).
Title	See list of titles Imām ahl al-adāʾ (lit. 'Imam of the People of Recitation') ; Shaykh al-Iqrāʾ biʾl-diyār al-Miṣriyya (lit. 'The Sheikh of Recitation in the Lands of Egypt') ; Raʾīs ahl Miṣr (lit. 'Chief of the People of Egypt') ; Raʾīs fī al-dirāya (lit. 'Master of Knowledge') ; Raʾīs al-ḍabṭ waʾl-itqān (lit. 'Master of Precision and Perfection') ; Shaykh al-Qurrāʾ (lit. 'The Shaykh of the Reciters') ;
Personal life
Born	Uthman ibn Sa‘id al-Qutbi; 110 AH (728 CE); Qift, Egypt, Umayyad Caliphate
Died	197 AH (812 CE) (aged 87); Cairo, Egypt, Abbasid Caliphate
Resting place	City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa cemetery)
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Region	Egypt, Hejaz
Main interest(s)	Qira'at (Quranic Recitation), Tajwid
Known for	Warsh recitation (Riwayah Warsh 'an Nafi')
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Muslim leader
Teacher	Nafi‘ al-Madani
	Students Ahmed al-Masri, Dawood bin Abi Tayyiba, Abu Ya'qub al-Azraq, Al-Asbahani;
	Influenced by Nafi‘ al-Madani; Isma'il bin Ja'far; Abd al-Rahman bin al-Qasim; ;
	Influenced Abu Ya'qub al-Azraq; Al-Asbahani; ;
Military service
Nickname(s)	Al-Rawwās; Al-Warshān;
	Arabic name
Personal; (Ism)	ʿUthmān; عثمان
Patronymic; (Nasab)	ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn Sulaymān ibn Ibrāhīm; بن سعيد بن عبد الله بن عمرو بن سليمان بن إبراهيم
Teknonymic; (Kunya)	Abū Saʿīd, Abū al-Qāsim, Abū ʿUmar; أبو سعيد، أبو القاسم، أبو عمر
Epithet; (Laqab)	Warsh; ورش
Toponymic; (Nisba)	al-Miṣrī al-Qurashī; المصري القرشي

Abu Sa'id Uthman Ibn Sa‘id al-Qebṭi, better known as Warsh (110-197AH), was a significant figure in the history of Quranic recitation (qira'at), the canonical methods of reciting the Qur'an. Alongside Qalun, he was one of the two primary transmitters of the canonical reading method of Nafi‘ al-Madani. Together, their style is the most common form of Qur'anic recitation in the generality of African mosques outside of Egypt, and is also popular in Yemen and Darfur despite the rest of Sudan following the method of Hafs. The method of Warsh and his counterpart Qalun was also the most popular method of recitation in Al-Andalus. The majority of printed Mushafs today in North Africa and West Africa follow the reading of Warsh.