At a glance
- Roles
- reciter · teacher
- Region
- Americas & Oceania · al-Andalus & Europe
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
Life in time
Place in the story
Unknown (unknown)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Fatih Seferagic (Fatih Seferagić) is a Bosnian-American Qur'an reciter and teacher, born on 1 March 1995 in Germany. His Bosniak family had left Bosnia, and moved on from Germany to the United States, where he was raised. He completed memorising the Qur'an at thirteen at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, studied classical Arabic in Dallas in the Bayyinah Dream programme of Nouman Ali Khan, and now lives in Houston, Texas, where he runs a programme teaching children Qur'an recitation and memorisation; he tours widely, and his recordings have drawn tens of millions of views. 1 2
The Urdu article differs on his birthplace, saying he was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995, during the final period of the Bosnian war; the record follows the Bashkir article and Wikidata, which give Germany. 3 1
Early life and memorisation
He was born in Germany on 1 March 1995, of Bosniak origin; his family moved first from Bosnia to Germany and then to the United States. He began memorising the Qur'an at the age of nine at a seminary, and completed his memorisation at thirteen at the Islamic Society of Baltimore. He then spent two more years studying the methodology of teaching the Qur'an and the different styles of recitation. 1
Study and teaching
He travelled to Dallas, Texas, where he studied classical Arabic in the Dream programme of the Bayyinah Institute in the lessons of Nouman Ali Khan. The Urdu article adds that he studied Islamic sciences at institutions in the United States and the Middle East, specialised in tajwid, recitation and dawah studies, and took part in recitation competitions, winning honours. 1 3
He now travels around the world teaching the Qur'an and lives in Houston, where he has organised his own programme teaching children to recite and memorise the Qur'an. 1
Reach
His fame rests on his recitation: his recordings on social media have been viewed tens of millions of times, and his accounts on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram each have more than a million followers; the Urdu article reports about 1.17 million YouTube subscribers by 2025. These figures change constantly and are recorded here with their date. 1 3
Sources
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Connections
- Studied under
- Nouman Ali Khan
People and things also explored
Sources
- Fatih Seferagic — Bashkir Wikipedia
- Fatih Seferagic — Wikidata Q135010783
- Fatih Seferagic — Urdu Wikipedia
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Fatih Seferagic”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/fatih-seferagic/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.