During the meeting, he considered it necessary to combine the Quranic recitation gatherings with translations and interpretations of the verses of the Quran in order to convey its concepts and notions ...

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 ...

I am a 21 year-old-man, I have been suffering from a disease named tongue-tie (ankyloglossia) [please see http://goo.gl/Hf8R0e] ever since my birth. It makes that you ...

al-Salamun `alaykum, How do the Shafi`ites and Malikis deem the performing of good deeds over/for a dead person forbidden, and yet permit (and thus encourage) reciting Qur'an at the graveside of the ...

INDEED, to reflect on Allah's verses is a form of worship that will draw one close to Him. The Quran is not a book like any other; it is a timeless guide for life, death and the hereafter. Therefore, ...

The Text: The Quran -- History of the Revelation and Compilation of the Written Text -- Nature of the Text -- External Form of the Text -- Content, Language, and Style -- Tajwid -- Material of Tajwid ...

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 ...

The head of the Holy Quran Reciters Syndicate in Egypt Mohamed Saleh Hashad announced that the union is taking legal action against music teacher Ahmed Hegazy for reciting the Quran using a lute.