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 ...

Zenab Hamdan, born in Chad, memorized the Quran's 114 chapters by the age of 12, then deepened her religious understanding in the Islamic schools of Saudi Arabia. Now, established in her Sugar Land ...

Tahera Ahmad became the first Muslim Chaplain at Northwestern University in 2010. Now she’s completed another first. Last weekend, she was the first woman to recite from the Quran in a public session ...

“A new category, the first of its kind, has been created for those women to encourage them to memorise and keep in touch with the Holy Quran,” Dr Shaikh Mahmoud Arusi, General Coordinator of the ...

Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women, according to a Taliban government minister. It’s the latest restriction on women following morality laws ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) --A Minnesota teenager representing the United States has won a prestigious Quran recitation competition after besting 103 other contestants from around the world. Ahmed Burhan ...

Doha, Qatar: The Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) announced that registration for the 9th Katara Prize for Quran Recitation will open tomorrow, Tuesday, and remain available until September 30.