His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, received on Thursday ...

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

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

During the month of Ramadan, Muslims traditionally read the entire Quran. In August 2011, at the Islamic Center of Northern Virginia in Fairfax, a well-known Quran reciter from Saudi Arabia, Sheikh ...

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 ...

(RNS) Searching for a recitation from a female "qariah" or reciter, Jerusha Lamptey, assistant professor of Islam and ministry at Union Theological Seminary, found none. (RNS) To many non-Muslims, ...

The news of his death was confirmed by the Egyptian daily Al-Yawm Al-Sabie. Shu’aisha, who was head of the Egyptian Union of Quran Reciters, was born in Kafr el-Sheikh, north of Egypt in 1922. He ...

TEHRAN -- Iranian and foreign reciters and memorizers of the Holy Quran met Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in Mashhad on Sunday. The meeting was part of a ...

His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah on Monday met with a number of families of the pioneering Quran reciters at the Holy Quran Academy, ...

His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, attended on Monday evening the graduation ceremony of the second batch of the certified Qura'a (Holy ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 30 (Bernama) -- Muhammad Irfan Syakir Romainor, 16, and Nur Aufa Hanis Nazri, 14, were crowned as the champion qari (male Quran reciter) and qariah (female Quran reciter) at the TaHa ...