The number of those learning the Quran while still preliterate has risen by 50%. 131,000 children have started life with the Quran. The Department of Religious Affairs, which started providing ...

When Yousuf Beg’s father died at the age of 67, no one was prepared for it — not his wife, not his children, and as they soon found out, not him. Though he was a religious Muslim, Beg’s father had ...

What is the validity or invalidity, under Sharee‘ah, of wrapping or shrouding the dead, male or a female, with a piece of cloth or banner carrying the speech of Allaah The Almighty or words of Tawheed ...

Asslaam alaikum, Please advise on the following: my wife is preparing some introductory Islamic books for our daughter covering the pillars of Islam, prayer, and some other subjects. She is writing ...

Very few people think of calligraphy as a religious art form. But the 22 Qurans on display prove it. The Walters exhibit, titled Speaking the Word of God: Illuminated Korans From The Walters Art ...

This exhibition Islamic Calligraphy in Practice and its companion exhibition,Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an, explore Islamic art’s quintessential art form: calligraphy. In the ...

As a conceptual category, the trace has bearings on ideas of an animating presence left behind. It is related to the relic, from the Latin reliquiae, the remains of a martyr or deceased person, and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Writing and reading the Quran in languages other than Arabic is prohibited. In a statement issued by the Quran Printing, Control and Licensing Board (LPPPQ), its chairperson Harussani Zakaria said ...

A Dutch former member of parliament and far-right activist who once called the Quran "poison" has announced he converted to Islam while writing a book originally intended to be against the religion.