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 ...

Haji-Hassani Kargar, 26, finished first at the 57th International Quran Reciters’ Assembly and Quran Memorizing, which was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia earlier in June. A number of world-renowned ...

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 ...

To many non-Muslims, Ramadan is about fasting, and later, feasting. But Muslims know Ramadan as the month of the Quran, a time when the sacred scripture is recited, read and rehearsed. Many Muslims ...

A legendary voice in Quran recitation is being honoured on the global stage. The late Sheikh Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husary has been named the Global Quranic Personality at the 28th edition of the Dubai ...

TEHRAN -- The 29th International Quran Competition opened at Tehran’s Milad Tower on Sunday with a large number of world’s Quran reciters and memorizers attending the event. Over 40 memorizers and 50 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei attended a meeting with holy Quran reciters on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan on Thursday. The meeting, which is called ...

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 ...