To master the art of Quran recitation, 21-year-old Hassan Ali Kasi had to follow a strict regime of yoga, hours of rehearsing vocal scales — and a total ban on biryani. Hassan Ali Kasi was recently ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Bahraini qari (male reciter) Mohamed Sameer Mohamed Magahed and Malaysian qariah (female reciter) Sofizah Mousin, were crowned champions of their respective categories at the 62nd ...

After prominent Arab reciter, or Qari, of Quran Shaikh Mishary al-Afasy’s tweet criticizing Hamas for supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Muslim Brotherhood followers hit back on social media ...

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Although reciting the Quran was not on his to-do list, he did not judge the Book, nor did he criticise those who followed it in different ways. All he wanted was to escape a memory tainted with horror ...

TAWAU, May 18 (Bernama) -- Hamdi Yusop, a primary religious school teacher and Nur Faten Izzati Rablin, an Al-Quran and Fardu Ain (KAFA) Class teacher, each emerged as the qari and qariah champions of ...

If you pass by the Emarat petrol station next to Dubai Bowling Centre and hear the melodious recitation of the holy Quran, you might mistake it for the recitation playing from the radio of a ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 (Bernama) -- Malaysian ‘qari’ (male reciter) Muhammad Qayyim Nizar Sarimi emerged as the champion of the men’s recitation category at the 63rd Malaysian International al-Quran ...