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 ...

To read the Qur’an “properly” is to read it with full tajwid. These are pronunciation techniques which can be mastered in a very short while and then practiced on the text to perfection. Each year, ...

"Mea culpa" or in today's vernacular, "My bad." In each of the past articles I've penned for this column, I have quoted from the Quran. Yet, I have failed to give even a brief introduction to the ...

When Jerusha Lamptey listens to the Quran, she usually does it through Quran Explorer, one of her favorite apps. Reading from the holy text in the famously hypnotic and mesmerizing chant involves lots ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Every year, as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan approached, Surya Sahetapy and his close friends would start to feel depressed. They were at their wits’ ends about how to help ...

The Islamic State had struck again, this time slaughtering 130 men and women in Paris. The group quoted the Quran twice in its celebratory statement. On Friday, investigators told CNN that ISIS also ...

The simple reason for this is because Islam is a religion that is practised with knowledge. The word tafseer is derived from "fassara" meaning to explain, to expound or elucidate. In most cases it is ...

It is a brave critic who gives a bad review to Muhammad’s meters, a daring one who sniffs at Moses’ prose or returns Paul’s letters. When we enter into sacred texts as readers, rather than as ...

I am fourteen the year we read Surah Maryam in Quran class. We, as in the twenty-odd students in my grade, in the girls' section of the Islamic school that I attend in this rich Arab country that my ...