(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, ...

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 ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Quran reciters from Malaysia topped all categories at the 56th International Al-Quran Recital Assembly, setting a record of sorts for the annual event. Ahmad Tirmizi Ali, from Terengganu ...

On the first day of the blessed month of Ramadan, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, met with a number of distinguished and international scholars and reciters of the ...

I have read in books about the sciences of the Quran that the first condition for acceptance of a Qira'ah (method of narration) of the Quran as authentic is for it to be narrated in Mutawaatir ...

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 ...