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The Digital Sisterhood

Qariah: The Women Quran Reciters App

The Digital Sisterhood

© The Digital Sisterhood Inc

Society & Culture, Documentary, Self-improvement, Education

4.93.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Ustadah Maryam, a lover and student of the Quran, shares her journey in creating Qariah; An app that contains recitations of female Quran reciters from around the globe.

Download Qariah. Now available on Apple and Google Play.

The Quran Recitation is by Sheikha Mabrooka recorded in 1911

This episode was brought to you by Beautiful Light Studios.

Recorded at MH Studios Toronto

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Recording Engineer: Jonathan Lillo

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh

0:04.1

it is your girl, Adan and friend and you're listening to the Digital Sujjahhood podcast

0:11.1

so i met Ustad bin Mariam on social media which i feel like most of us have

0:17.2

she was this really outspoken woman who had so much knowledge

0:23.0

and you could tell by just listening to one short clip real and she spent a lot of time

0:28.8

educating women about women's scholarship and what I had in recitation and naturally i was very

0:36.2

very inquisitive about her so i followed her and i always kept i can't always kept along about

0:41.0

what she was doing and when i thought about interviewing for season two i thought oh you know

0:47.0

i would love to get Ustad bin Mariam to come and talk about a story i know i know she has

0:50.5

done it before but i was even more affirmed to do it when i thought about her a quality of app

0:56.6

that was coming out i was like oh i have to i have to figure out the story behind all of this

1:00.5

and who she is and i really how a lot of time to let her to creating this what sounds like a

1:05.2

groundbreaking app when we interviewed Ustad bin Mariam we weren't able to fully get our story because

1:11.4

we had a really short time in the studio but consider this a part one of her story and in the

1:17.2

future in shawla we plan to bring her back and we can talk more details about all the things that we

1:21.2

missed but what i do know is is this Ustad bin Mariam was born in russian california she grew up

1:27.3

with parents that rediscovered his time in their college years and were very intentional about

1:31.6

raising kids that were aware of a slap when i really first heard her story it's all the kind of

1:36.4

like a romantic film let me tell you this is how it went my my dad really found his them and

1:43.0

you know chose to embrace his most of my identity in college in california my mom did the same in

1:48.4

college in aewa they both were really introduced to a slam through um christian roommates that they had

1:55.6

wow they would go to church with and go to bible study with and then that kind of opened their

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