Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some women have now turned to social media to amplify the voices of female Quran reciters and encourage each other to post their ...

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 ...

(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, ...

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has honored Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary as the 2026 International Quranic Personality at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abdul Fattah Taruti, Ahmed Naina, and Shaban al-Dairi are the three internationally known reciters who are due to attend 20 gatherings in 20 Imamzadehs in the capital Tehran, cultural deputy director ...

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 ...

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 ...