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 ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Every year, as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan approached, Surya Sahetapy and his close friends would start to feel depressed. They were at their wits’ ends about how to help ...

When Muzaffar Iqbal learned that only about 20 per cent of the world’s more than 1.7 billion Muslims today can read their holy book, the Qur’an, in its original Arabic, he decided to do something ...