LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - More than 20 years ago, retired Major Jason Howk of the U.S. Army joined special forces from the United Arab Emirates as a paratrooper. Over the years, he learned Farsi and ...

The new version has been translated by Iranian scholar Tahereh Saffarzadeh. In the introduction, Saffarzadeh gives a brief history of translation of the Holy Quran and explains why she made a new ...

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 ...

The collective failure to deradicalise London Bridge attacker Usman Khan has raised some difficult questions about Muslims, the dangers of extremism and the efforts of counter-terrorism. It appears ...

The book is the fruit of holding twenty-eight consecutive sessions in Ramadan of the year 1974 by Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. The theme of the printed work revolves around probing into basic ...

A Nigerian Islamic scholar, Dr Dauda Awwal, has launched what he describes as the world’s first comprehensive Yoruba-English Qur’an translation, an initiative aimed at making the Islamic holy book ...

"Mea culpa" or in today's vernacular, "My bad." In each of the past articles I've penned for this column, I have quoted from the Quran. Yet, I have failed to give even a brief introduction to the ...

An internationally recognized Qur'an scholar, Dr Dauda Awwal, has announced the launch of the English-Yoruba Qur'an 4-in-1 project and the 'My First 13 Surahs for Children' edition. The initiative is ...