It only takes one call for prayer, or al-athaan in Arabic, to make one pause, even for a millisecond. And in that small ...

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 ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. The interpreters of the hadeeth said ...

The Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf) and Islamic Affairs has launched a specialized Quranic encyclopedia titled Encyclopedia of Quranic ...

Reciting Quran is important during Ramzan. So, I recite it daily while reading it online on my smart phone because it is very convenient. We can read it anywhere and in any language. I recite from ...

Samia Mubarak hands her 9-year-old daughter, Maryam Bianouni, her joint first-place trophy as part of the Ramadan Quran Competition that took place in east Charlotte this past weekend. Ramadan is a ...

If you surf the radio channels, you will hear different voices and various recitations of the Quran; but none of them is a woman’s. Ever wondered why? On page 134 of his 1959 book titled Alhan ...

Parrots are now taught to recite the Quran and perform prayers; a trend taking place in Saudi Arabia with big money to be made. “Teaching parrots Quran is not new, it goes back to eight years ago when ...