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The memorization of the Qur'an is a practice as old as revelation. Its completion to memory is considered a communal obligation, is the accomplishment of millions of Muslims around the world and is the aspiration of millions more. This paper argues through the narrativized testimonies of Qur'an memorizers in Canada that memorization is not simply committing the verses of the Qur'an to memory. Rather, it is a highly ritualized, relational language performance-practice immersed in transnationality and global networks, the learning of which is internalized to transform understandings of self, community and futurity.
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