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Long stories and epic tales used music to draw in the audience and to help the reciter’s memorization.

Many devout Muslims play recordings of favorite reciters at homes or businesses to contemplate the verses or soothe their souls.

Most Muslims follow a tradition of having a reciter read the entire Koran to the community during Ramadan, one part per night.

“They were used to being passive reciters of knowledge,” she said.

"The reciters in the Levant recite according to the melodies they know, as do the ones in Egypt, the Hijaz, North Africa and elsewhere."