British lawyer George Sale was the first man to conduct a direct English translation of the Quran. His 1733 translation ...

In the 1700s, American statesman Thomas Jefferson purchased a copy of the Quran. Historical records suggest that the third President of the US bought the book as a law student while others say he ...

Over the past several months, I have been reading the Quran with the intention of completing it during the blessed month of ...

When M.A.S. Abdel Haleem was a youngster in Egypt all the boys in his school were required to memorize the entire Quran and were tested annually to make sure they maintained this knowledge. The ...

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 ...

No one knows who brought the book to the mosque, or at least no one dares say. The pocket-size translation of the Quran has already landed six men in prison in Afghanistan and left two of them begging ...

In Malaysia, efforts to preserve the dignity of the Quran and protect it from acts of desecration are carried out through ...

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 ...