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God hath no one voice

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In Anne Rasmussen's book  Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music   the author puts a huge emphasis on the importance of sound and the way the word are said. In the first paragraph I will take a look at religions and zoning in on Islam and then in the second paragaraph branch out and talk about how it is  culturally  important to us all. First Anne talks about the importance of the recititation of the Qur'an. How although it is a religious text that is studied it is also a form of the most precious art and should be treated as such. Qur'an  recitation  are huge part of the religion, but have two major benefits. One it allows people to hear the words in a poetic sense by many different readers which give the Qur'an more dept and  emotion. It is one thing to just read something something, but if you hear someone say it with passion and strength it almost as if it is not coming from them, but from a higher power. Second, the recital also gives wome...