Prince Mishaal bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Makkah Region, presented the award to Shaikh Hasan Tayeb Al Alawi, deputy president of the organising committee of the contest. Junaid Perfumes ...

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 ...

If you surf the radio channels, you will hear different voices and various recitations of the Quran; but none of them is a woman’s. Ever wondered why? On page 134 of his 1959 book titled Alhan ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. First of all, we would like to ...

This year's Islamic conference, held in Washington, D.C., will certainly go down in history of (Islamic) gender justice as nothing less than memorable. On August 30, Tahera Ahmad, who became the first ...

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 ...