When we talk about inshad (religious chanting) in Yemen from the early 1980s to today, Abdulrahman al-Amri is the voice that has surpassed all others in this genre. I first saw him in the 1980s on television, in black and white, chanting Rab al-saba al-mathani (Lord of the seven oft-repeated verses). I was nine-years-old, and …
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