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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 ...

Reading the Quran can be a baffling experience. Unlike the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), the Quran is not a collection of books recounting the mythical history of a community of faith. It is not, like ...

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - More than 20 years ago, retired Major Jason Howk of the U.S. Army joined special forces from the United Arab Emirates as a paratrooper. Over the years, he learned Farsi and ...

No one knows who brought the book to the mosque, or at least no one dares say. The pocket-size translation of the Quran has already landed six men in prison in Afghanistan and left two of them begging ...

The new version has been translated by Iranian scholar Tahereh Saffarzadeh. In the introduction, Saffarzadeh gives a brief history of translation of the Holy Quran and explains why she made a new ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Qur’an: A New Translation By Tarif Khalidi Penguin Classics £25, 560 pages FT Bookshop price: £20 There was a ...

The Kalenjin indigenous community in Kenya has over 6.3 million members, according to the country’s 2019 national census. The Kalenjin people are a southern Nilotic ethnic group that is comprised of ...

The Turkiye Diyanet Foundation (TDV) has published the Muslim holy book Quran with Amharic translation for Ethiopian Muslims. Some 15,000 copies will be distributed to the Muslims once the publication ...