Muḥammad ‘Umrān

Biography

Muhammad Umran was a reciter, chanter and composer from Tahta, Sohag.

The university study records 15 October 1944 and 6 October 1994 as his birth and death dates, and discusses his vocal composition. His son Mahmoud recalls tuition with Naqshbandi and Sayyid Musa, music study and Helwan mosque work. He names Hilmi Amin/Makkawi compositions, but Abd al-Wahhab’s listening and recording, without a specific composition credit. Abduh Dagher recalls training Umran at home for eight to ten years after meeting him at al-Hussein. He explains teaching singers maqam with his violin and voice, signalling changes during improvisation. He remembers taking Umran to Abd al-Wahhab, who recorded their performances for later listening. This documents practical tuition and shared sessions through participant testimony, without establishing their starting year. Dagher describes training that develops daily, drawing on reciters, supplicators and singers to build his own teaching method. Wael al-Samry published a written private-session dialogue between Umran, Dagher and Abd al-Wahhab, obtained through collector Salah Allam. Umran discusses fitting free singing to prerecorded accompaniment and managing studio pitch. The author infers 1987–1989; Dagher could not recall its date. Discussion of a planned religious project does not establish a completed new composition for Umran.