Visitors to the second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale stood before a unique Quranic manuscript that smoothly combines ...
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 ...
When you walk into the Smithsonian's "Art of the Qur'an" exhibition, you're met with a book that weighs 150 pounds. The tome, which dates back to the late-1500s, has giant pages that are covered in ...
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 ...