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 "label": {
  "ar": "مؤسسة خدمة القرآن الإسلامية",
  "en": "Khidmatulquran Islamic Foundation",
  "ur": "خدمت القرآن اسلامک فاؤنڈیشن"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مؤسسة تنزانية غير ربحية يرأسها الشيخ علي محمد صالح، تُنظّم مسابقات تجويد القرآن في تنزانيا منذ 2004 — بدءًا من مسابقة أسّسها منظّموها في مسجد إدريسا، فمسابقة شرق أفريقيا للتجويد منذ 2008، ثم مسابقات دولية للتلاوة والتجويد تستضيف قرّاء عالميين — وتدرّس القرآن وتنشره. تسجّل قناتها على يوتيوب (@khidmatulquran)، المنشأة سنة 2013، مسابقاتها، وبلغ عدد مشتركيها نحو 153 ألفًا بحسب عدّاد vidIQ في 4 نوفمبر 2026.",
  "en": "A Tanzanian non-profit foundation, chaired by Sheikh Ally Mohammed Saleh, which has organised Qur'an tajweed competitions in Tanzania since 2004 — from a competition its organisers established at Masjid Idrisa, to an East Africa tajweed competition from 2008 and international tilawat and tajweed competitions hosting world-renowned reciters — alongside Qur'an teaching and publishing. Its YouTube channel (@khidmatulquran), created in 2013, records its competitions and counted about 153,000 subscribers by vidIQ's count as of 4 November 2026.",
  "ur": "خدمت القرآن اسلامک فاؤنڈیشن تنزانیہ کی ایک غیر منافع بخش فاؤنڈیشن ہے جس کے چیئرمین شیخ علی محمد صالح ہیں؛ یہ ۲۰۰۴ء سے تنزانیہ میں قرآنِ مجید کے تجویدی مقابلے منعقد کر رہی ہے — مسجد ادریسا میں اس کے منتظمین کی قائم کردہ مسابقے سے شروع ہو کر ۲۰۰۸ء سے مشرقی افریقہ کا تجویدی مقابلہ اور پھر عالمی شہرت یافتہ قاریوں کی میزبانی کرنے والے بین الاقوامی تلاوت و تجوید کے مقابلے — اور قرآن کی تعلیم و اشاعت کا کام بھی کرتی ہے۔ اس کا یوٹیوب چینل (@khidmatulquran)، جو ۲۰۱۳ء میں بنا، اس کے مقابلوں کو ریکارڈ کرتا ہے اور vidIQ کی گنتی کے مطابق ۴ نومبر ۲۰۲۶ء کو اس کے سبسکرائبرز تقریباً ۱۵۳٬۰۰۰ تھے۔"
 },
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 "wings": [
  "living"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "east-africa"
 ],
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  "period/modern-era"
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 "aliases": [],
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 "span": {
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  "latest": 2005.0014031773094
 },
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "2004",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
   "note": "The foundation dates its work to 2004: in its own account it established the Quran Competition in 2004 at Masjid Idrisa, and its teachers Sheikh Ally Mohammed Saleh (its chairman) and Sheikh Iddy Abdallah and their fellows have organised the Holy Quran Tajweed competition in Tanzania since 2004; its competitions' first winners span 2004–2022. This is the establishment of the competition the foundation is built around, as the foundation itself tells it — no separate legal registration date is published on its website.",
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    "source/khidmatulquran-website-about",
    "source/khidmatulquran-website-history-2024"
   ]
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   "edtf": "2004",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
   "note": "The foundation dates its work to 2004: in its own account it established the Quran Competition in 2004 at Masjid Idrisa, and its teachers Sheikh Ally Mohammed Saleh (its chairman) and Sheikh Iddy Abdallah and their fellows have organised the Holy Quran Tajweed competition in Tanzania since 2004; its competitions' first winners span 2004–2022. This is the establishment of the competition the foundation is built around, as the foundation itself tells it — no separate legal registration date is published on its website.",
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   "basis": "self-identified",
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "The 2026-11-04 harvest group candidate (YouTube @khidmatulquran, about 153 thousand subscribers), researched against the foundation's official website (About Us, Achievements and February 2024 history posts, khidmatulquran.or.tz) and the vidIQ channel-statistics page, all read on 5 November 2026. The foundation is a Tanzanian organisation distinct from the Al-Hikma Foundation of Sheikh Nurdeen Kishki, whose separate competition is the subject of other coverage; the two are not conflated here.",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Wonder)",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مؤسسة خدمة القرآن الإسلامية منظمة تنزانية غير ربحية تُنظّم مسابقات تجويد القرآن في تنزانيا منذ سنة 2004. يرأسها الشيخ علي محمد صالح، ومنظّموها المعلّمون الشيخ علي محمد صالح والشيخ إدي عبد الله وزملاؤهما؛ ورسالتها المعلنة تنظيم مسابقات القرآن وطنيًا ودوليًا — التلاوة والحفظ والتجويد والقراءات — وإنشاء المكتبات الدينية ومراكز التعليم ونشر القرآن والإعلام الإسلامي وتوزيعه. وراعيها موسى أزان زونغو، نائب رئيس البرلمان التنزاني وعضوه. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-about} وتسجّل قناتها على يوتيوب (@khidmatulquran)، المنشأة في 22 مايو 2013، مسابقاتِها، وبلغ عدد مشتركيها نحو 153 ألفًا في 1,142 مقطعًا بحسب عدّاد vidIQ في 4 نوفمبر 2026، وهو رقم منصّة مؤرّخ. {cite:vidiq-khidmatulquran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة",
     "markdown": "تؤرّخ المؤسسة عملها بسنة 2004، حين أسّس مؤسسوها مسابقة القرآن في مسجد إدريسا؛ وتروي أنه لم يكن في تنزانيا حينها سوى مناسبتين قرآنيتين سنويًا، مسابقتها ومسابقة نظّمتها مؤسسة الشيخ يحيى حسين في مسجد متورو بدار السلام. ويمتد الفائزون الأوائل في مسابقاتها من 2004 إلى 2022، وحقق كثير منهم مراكز في مسابقات دولية حول العالم. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-history-2024}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسابقات والانتشار",
     "markdown": "تصف المؤسسة نفسها بأنها أول منظمة في تنزانيا تقيم حدث تجويد قرآنيًا كبيرًا، وقد نظّمت سنة 2008 مسابقة شرق أفريقيا لتجويد القرآن — الأولى في شرق أفريقيا بحسب قولها — بمشاركين من كينيا وأوغندا وبوروندي. وتستضيف في تنزانيا قرّاء ذوي شهرة عالمية، منهم الدكتور أحمد نعينع والدكتور عبد الفتاح الطاروطي، وتُنظّم مسابقة دولية للتلاوة والتجويد تجمع قرّاء من أنحاء العالم، وتروّج للقرّاء التنزانيين في المحافل الدولية؛ وتصف نفسها بأنها المنظّم الوحيد لمسابقات التجويد الدولية في تنزانيا. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-achievements} {cite:khidmatulquran-website-history-2024} وتوثّق أكثر تسجيلات القناة مشاهدةً هذا العمل: مسابقة التلاوة السادسة عشرة للقرآن سنة 2021، والمسابقة الدولية للقرآن سنة 2023 التي فاز بمركزها الأول القارئ شمسوري فردوس من إندونيسيا واستضافت تلاوة الشيخ محمود الشحات. {cite:vidiq-khidmatulquran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- مؤسسة خدمة القرآن الإسلامية، الموقع الرسمي — «من نحن»، كما قُرئت في 5 نوفمبر 2026. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-about}\n- مؤسسة خدمة القرآن الإسلامية، الموقع الرسمي — «الإنجازات»، كما قُرئت في 5 نوفمبر 2026. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-achievements}\n- مؤسسة خدمة القرآن الإسلامية، الموقع الرسمي — منشورات فبراير 2024، كما قُرئت في 5 نوفمبر 2026. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-history-2024}\n- مؤسسة خدمة القرآن الإسلامية — إحصاءات قناة vidIQ، حُدّثت الصفحة في 4 نوفمبر 2026، كما قُرئت في 5 نوفمبر 2026. {cite:vidiq-khidmatulquran}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "group/khidmatulquran-islamic-foundation",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-05"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "The Khidmatulquran Islamic Foundation is a Tanzanian non-profit organisation which has organised Qur'an tajweed competitions in Tanzania since 2004. Its chairman is Sheikh Ally Mohammed Saleh, and its organisers are the teachers Sheikh Ally Mohammed Saleh and Sheikh Iddy Abdallah and their fellows; its stated mission is to organise Quran competitions nationally and internationally — recitation, memorisation (Hifz), tajweed and Qiraat — and to establish religious libraries and learning centres and publish and distribute Quranic and Islamic media. Its patron is Mussa Azzan Zungu, Deputy Speaker and Member of Parliament of Tanzania. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-about} Its YouTube channel (@khidmatulquran), created on 22 May 2013, records its competitions and counted about 153,000 subscribers across 1,142 videos by vidIQ's count as of 4 November 2026, a dated platform figure. {cite:vidiq-khidmatulquran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Origins",
     "markdown": "The foundation dates its work to 2004, when its founders established the Quran Competition at Masjid Idrisa; at the time, it recounts, there were only two annual Quranic occasions in Tanzania, its own and one organised by the Sheikh Yahya Hussein Foundation at Masjid Mtoro in Dar es Salaam. The first winners of its competitions span 2004–2022, and many went on to place in international competitions around the world. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-history-2024}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Competitions and reach",
     "markdown": "The foundation describes itself as the first organisation in Tanzania to establish a big Quran Tajweed event, and in 2008 it organised the East Africa Quran Tajweed Competition — the first in East Africa, it says — with participants from Kenya, Uganda and Burundi. It invites world-renowned reciters to Tanzania, among them Dr Ahmad Nuayna and Dr Abdelfatah Tarooty, organises an international Quran Tilawat Tajweed competition drawing reciters from different parts of the world, and promotes Tanzanian reciters to international events; it describes itself as the sole organiser of the International Quran Tajweed Competitions in Tanzania. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-achievements} {cite:khidmatulquran-website-history-2024} The channel's most-viewed recordings document this work: the 16th Quran Tilawat Competition of 2021, and the International Quran Competition of 2023, whose first winner was Qari Syamsuri Firdaus of Indonesia and which also hosted Sheikh Mahmood Shahat's recitation. {cite:vidiq-khidmatulquran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- Khidmatulquran Islamic Foundation, official website — About Us, as read on 5 November 2026. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-about}\n- Khidmatulquran Islamic Foundation, official website — Achievements, as read on 5 November 2026. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-achievements}\n- Khidmatulquran Islamic Foundation, official website — February 2024 posts, as read on 5 November 2026. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-history-2024}\n- KHIDMATULQURAN ISLAMIC FOUNDATION — vidIQ channel statistics, page updated 4 November 2026, as read on 5 November 2026. {cite:vidiq-khidmatulquran}"
    }
   ],
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    "lang": "en",
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   "updated": "2026-11-05"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "The Khidmatulquran Islamic Foundation is a Tanzanian non-profit organisation which has organised Qur'an tajweed competitions in Tanzania since 2004. Its chairman is Sheikh Ally Mohammed Saleh, and its organisers are the teachers Sheikh Ally Mohammed Saleh and Sheikh Iddy Abdallah and their fellows; its stated mission is to organise Quran competitions nationally and internationally — recitation, memorisation (Hifz), tajweed and Qiraat — and to establish religious libraries and learning centres and publish and distribute Quranic and Islamic media. Its patron is Mussa Azzan Zungu, Deputy Speaker and Member of Parliament of Tanzania. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-about} Its YouTube channel (@khidmatulquran), created on 22 May 2013, records its competitions and counted about 153,000 subscribers across 1,142 videos by vidIQ's count as of 4 November 2026, a dated platform figure. {cite:vidiq-khidmatulquran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Origins",
     "markdown": "The foundation dates its work to 2004, when its founders established the Quran Competition at Masjid Idrisa; at the time, it recounts, there were only two annual Quranic occasions in Tanzania, its own and one organised by the Sheikh Yahya Hussein Foundation at Masjid Mtoro in Dar es Salaam. The first winners of its competitions span 2004–2022, and many went on to place in international competitions around the world. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-history-2024}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Competitions and reach",
     "markdown": "The foundation describes itself as the first organisation in Tanzania to establish a big Quran Tajweed event, and in 2008 it organised the East Africa Quran Tajweed Competition — the first in East Africa, it says — with participants from Kenya, Uganda and Burundi. It invites world-renowned reciters to Tanzania, among them Dr Ahmad Nuayna and Dr Abdelfatah Tarooty, organises an international Quran Tilawat Tajweed competition drawing reciters from different parts of the world, and promotes Tanzanian reciters to international events; it describes itself as the sole organiser of the International Quran Tajweed Competitions in Tanzania. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-achievements} {cite:khidmatulquran-website-history-2024} The channel's most-viewed recordings document this work: the 16th Quran Tilawat Competition of 2021, and the International Quran Competition of 2023, whose first winner was Qari Syamsuri Firdaus of Indonesia and which also hosted Sheikh Mahmood Shahat's recitation. {cite:vidiq-khidmatulquran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- Khidmatulquran Islamic Foundation, official website — About Us, as read on 5 November 2026. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-about}\n- Khidmatulquran Islamic Foundation, official website — Achievements, as read on 5 November 2026. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-achievements}\n- Khidmatulquran Islamic Foundation, official website — February 2024 posts, as read on 5 November 2026. {cite:khidmatulquran-website-history-2024}\n- KHIDMATULQURAN ISLAMIC FOUNDATION — vidIQ channel statistics, page updated 4 November 2026, as read on 5 November 2026. {cite:vidiq-khidmatulquran}"
    }
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