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 ...

ST. LOUIS (RNS) — By day, he’s a third‑year medical student, hustling between operating rooms and cramming for exams. By night, he trades his scrubs for a thobe — an Islamic robe for men — and steps ...

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. First of all, we would like to ...

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, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His Slave and Messenger. The ...

Although, as an adult I'd chafed for years at the size of women's spaces in the mosque; an afterthought compared to the men's, it never even occurred to me to ask why I had never heard a female ...

A man performed a recitation from the Quran on stage during a Durga Puja programme in Barishal's Wazirpur upazila on Sunday night. The makeshift stage was set up on the temple premises -- around 10-12 ...

US President Donald Trump listened to a Quran recitation as part of an inaugural service on Saturday. The imam who recited the verses, Imam Mohamed Magid, executive director of the All Dulles Area ...

Amid protests by right-wing groups, the Quran was not recited as per the tradition of the annual car festival of Sri Channakeshava Swamy temple in Belur in Hassan district on Tuesday. The practice of ...