About us

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Tilawat is a quiet place to listen to the Holy Quran. We have brought together recitations by hundreds of reciters from many countries and narrations, and organised them so you can find what you are looking for: a reciter you love, a surah you are memorising, or a narration you are learning.

Why Tilawat

Tilawat started as a personal, non-profit project. We wanted a listening experience worthy of the Quran: clear sound, simple browsing and playback that keeps going, with no ads interrupting the recitation and no subscription or forced sign-up.

Listening on Tilawat is completely free, and it will stay that way.

What you will find here

Complete and partial mushafs by more than a thousand reciters, every surah in many voices, the twenty well-known narrations, and Quran radio stations broadcasting around the clock.

We do not show the Quran text or tafsir. Tilawat is for listening only; reading and study are best left to the resources that specialise in them.

Where the recitations come from

We do not host the audio files ourselves. The recitations come from several public Quran audio libraries, which we check continuously. If a source fails while you are listening, the player moves to another source of the same recitation on its own.

We will name these libraries here once each of them has confirmed its permission, and we thank the people who run them for their work.

Your privacy

You can listen without an account. We measure usage in aggregate, in a way that does not identify you, so we know what to improve. The details are in our privacy policy.

Contact us

If a recitation does not play, a name is spelled wrongly, or you would like to suggest a reciter, we would love to hear from you. We will add a way to reach us here before launch.

Reciter photos

Some reciter photos are published under free licences on Wikimedia Commons. We thank their authors and credit them here as their licences ask.