To read the Qur’an “properly” is to read it with full tajwid. These are pronunciation techniques which can be mastered in a very short while and then practiced on the text to perfection. Each year, ...

Use the same Mus-haf (copy) when you read the Quran and stick to it so that you may become familiar with it and know the sites of various verses and how to find them quickly when you revise what you ...

Reading the Quran can be a baffling experience. Unlike the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), the Quran is not a collection of books recounting the mythical history of a community of faith. It is not, like ...

Finnish public broadcasting is reading the Quran — all of it, a half-hour at a time. Radio 1, the radio arm of broadcaster Yle, will begin reading Islam's holy book on March 7 in 60 installments of a ...

The simple reason for this is because Islam is a religion that is practised with knowledge. The word tafseer is derived from "fassara" meaning to explain, to expound or elucidate. In most cases it is ...

It is a brave critic who gives a bad review to Muhammad’s meters, a daring one who sniffs at Moses’ prose or returns Paul’s letters. When we enter into sacred texts as readers, rather than as ...