Shazli, who was the deputy head of the Arab country’s Quran Reciters Union died at the age of 69 in Armania village, Beheira Governorate, north of Egypt.
He had just returned from a trip to Austria.
Born in 1948, Shazli was a Quran master, international reciter and referee and a faculty member of Al-Azhar University.
He travelled to Iran several times to recite the Quran and serve as member of panels of judges in the country’s international Quran contests.
