Maria Ulfah
Maria Ulfah (; born 21 December 1955) is an Indonesian
qāriʾah (reciter of the
Quran) and manager of the Central Institute for the Development of Quranic Recitation. She is the winner of two Indonesian national Qur'an recitation contests and is internationally recognized as one of the world's master reciters and teachers of recitation. She is also a lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Qur'an and at the National Islamic University in
Indonesia, as well as the first woman to win an international Qur'an recitation award in
Malaysia in 1980. She's considered an internationally significant figure in the field, and has been referred to as
Southeast Asia's premier female reciter of the Qur'an.
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