A cikin Islama, Qirāʼah, (pl. Qiraʼat ) (Larabci: قِراءة, lit. 'karatu ko karatuttuka') waxanda suke "mabambantan harshe, lexical, sautin sauti, nau'i da nau'i na syntactical da aka halatta tare da karanta" littafi mai tsarki na Musulunci, Al-Qur'ani. Bambance-bambancen da ke tsakanin Qiraʼat kaɗan ne kuma sun haɗa da ƙa’idodi dabam-dabam game da “tsawaitawa, ƙarar magana, da furucin kalmomi”, amma kuma bambance-bambancen tsayawa, wasula, baƙaƙe (wanda ke kaiwa ga nau’ikan karin magana da nau’ikan fi’ili dabam-dabam), da ƙasan yawancin kalmomi. Qiraʼat kuma yana nufin “reshen nazarin Musulunci” da ke magana da waɗannan hanyoyin karatun. Akwai mazhabobi iri-iri da aka sani na ƙiraʼat, kowannensu ya samo sunansa daga mashahurin mai karatun Alqur’ani ko kuma “mai karatu” (qāriʾ pl.qāriʾūn ko qurr’aʿ), kamar Nafi’ al-Madani, Ibn Kathir al-Makki, Abu Amr. na Basra, Ibn Amir ad-Dimashqi, Aasim bn Abi al-Najud, Hamzah az-Zaiyyat, Al-Kisa'i.