Sandow Birk’s new book makes the Quran look like familiar territory. The scenes that surround the text on its huge pages show ordinary people at ordinary tasks — harvesting fields, boarding planes, ...

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n recent months, Islamophobia and hate crimes against muslims in the United States have soared to their highest levels since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — In the midst of growing Islamophobia in the US, artist Sandow Birk embarked on a nine-year project to transcribe and illustrate the entire Qur’an by hand. Sandow Birk, ...

Images are the easiest way to lie. Images enter our minds as infallible: Few of us wonder whether the carpet on the floor is true or false, whether the person who smiles at us on the subway is real or ...

Los Angeles-based artist Sandow Birk visited Montalvo Arts Center recently to discuss his latest project, "American Qur'an," an illuminated manuscript of the Quran in English that he spent nine years ...

Birk, an American illustrator and graphic artist, dedicated nine years to studying traditional Qur'anic manuscripts and working on this modern homage. He sets the text in a graffiti-inspired ...

The Study Quran puts this great religious work in historical perspective. A new translation of the Quran, with commentary, is causing a stir—and maybe something of a revolution—in the world of English ...

The scene is seared into the American psyche: the residents of New Orleans engulfed by flood waters, perched on rooftops and desperate for help as corpses float past and helicopters whirl overhead.

It began with a customer who was upset that Northshire Bookstore had a copy of "American Qur'an" on display. The man saw the hand-transcribed Islamic holy book Tuesday night and yelled at the staff, ...

For Muslims, the Quran is the word of God, given directly to Muhammad at the start of the 7th century by the Archangel Michael in oral messages in Arabic that the prophet — the last prophet — would ...