Assimilation and Dissimilation in the Recitation of Abu Amr al-Basri: A Descriptive Study in Light of Modern Linguistics

Abstract

This research examines the phenomenon of assimilation and dissimilation in the work of one of the seven most important reciters of the Quran, to whom the leadership of Quranic recitation in Basra ultimately passed. It is a linguistic study from the perspective of modern phonetics. The phenomenon of assimilation has received considerable attention from both early and later linguists. Assimilation is a phenomenon of assimilation, in which two adjacent sounds disappear complet Assimilation is the process by which linguistic sounds influence one another, with the aim of creating similarity or resemblance between them. This involves not only their proximity but also their closeness in terms of characteristics and points of articulation. Assimilation occurs through convergence, homogeneity, or similarity between two adjacent sounds, leading to a convergence in their points of articulation and characteristics, or to complete assimilation, which manifests in assimilation. Modern scholars have divided assimilation into two types:

The advancing effect: This refers to the influence of the second sound on the first sound. The retrograde effect: This refers to the influence of the first sound on the second sound. The reciters only knew the second type: the assimilation of the first sound into the second sound. This is because they adhered strictly to the examples found in the Quran without adding anything further.

In its phonetic reality, assimilation is the merging of one sound into another that is similar or close to it in the place of articulation, with some differences between them in some phonetic features and characteristics in the similar sound, so that the assimilated sound appears as if it were a sound similar to the sound into which it was assimilated, so the two sounds appear as if they were one geminated sound.