When M.A.S. Abdel Haleem was a youngster in Egypt all the boys in his school were required to memorize the entire Quran and were tested annually to make sure they maintained this knowledge. The ...

I have 3 questions. I read tafsir ibn kathir which states a hadith which is "whoever explains the Quran with his opinion or with what he has no knowledge of, then let him assume his seat in the fire" ...

(RNS) — In the past three years, Islam By Touch has sent more than 150 braille renderings of English translations of the Quran to U.S. mosques and Muslims. (RNS) – When Yadira Thabatah converted to ...

Tahereh Saffarzadeh, a prominent Iranian poet and academic, is remembered for her clear and scholarly English translation of the Quran, the first by an Iranian woman.

Styles of recitation of the Quran can sometimes have a cultural and even a political meaning as well as a spiritual one, as Ahram Weekly discovers Yasser Al-Sharkawi misses the time when he would head ...

Major (ret.) Jason Criss Howk, a student of Islam, aims to bridge gaps in understanding of Islam. Attempting to neither spread the religion nor denigrate it, Howk will lead a discussion about what he ...