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 ...

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 ...

(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, ...

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 ...

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. If a Muslim happens to prefer ...

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 ...