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 ...

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 ...

Assalamu alaykum. Today, there are pictures of Islamic buildings with inscriptions from the Quran etc. on plastic bags, copybook covers, posters, photos etc. Can we use them? Should we keep them ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turkish-born Azerbaijani artist Tünzale Memmedzade said she was inspired to create the silk Quran after realising her work would be the first of its kind (Screenshot via Anadolu Agency ) Ms Memmedzade ...

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 ...