(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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 -- 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, Oct 30 (Bernama) -- Muhammad Irfan Syakir Romainor, 16, and Nur Aufa Hanis Nazri, 14, were crowned as the champion qari (male Quran reciter) and qariah (female Quran reciter) at the TaHa ...

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 ...

His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah on Monday met with a number of families of the pioneering Quran reciters at the Holy Quran Academy, ...

His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, attended on Monday evening the graduation ceremony of the second batch of the certified Qura'a (Holy ...