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 ...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government plans to start teaching the Holy Quran at educational institutions, after the summer holidays, from the primary to higher-secondary level. But even before it gets off ...

Tahereh Saffarzadeh, a prominent Iranian poet and academic, is remembered for her clear and scholarly English translation of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Qur’an: A New Translation By Tarif Khalidi Penguin Classics £25, 560 pages FT Bookshop price: £20 There was a ...

The Punjab government has made teaching of the Holy Quran with translation mandatory for all the university students. An official notification said that a student would not be awarded degree if he or ...

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LAHORE: A resolution supporting mandatory teaching of the Quran, with translation and comprehension, in all public and private educational institutions was passed, unanimously, on Tuesday by the ...

LAHORE: Punjab Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar has made it compulsory for students to read the Holy Quran with Urdu translation for fulfillment of a degree in all universities across the province.