The Quran is the central religious text of Islam and is believed by Muslims to be the literal word of God (Allah) revealed to the Prophet Muhammad over a period of approximately 23 years.Here are some ...

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 ...

For years, Zakirullah wondered why he was born without sight. Today, at the Kabul Vocational Institute for the Blind, he is learning the ...

Our knowledge of women’s place in pre-Islamic Arab society is limited, but the Quran evidently called for some improvements. It condemned, for instance, the live burial of unwanted newborn girls – and ...

For years, the two parchment leaves covered in an elegant early form of Arabic script were misbound with leaves of a similar Quran manuscript dating from the late seventh century. Now, with the help ...