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 ...

Finnish public broadcasting is reading the Quran — all of it, a half-hour at a time. Radio 1, the radio arm of broadcaster Yle, will begin reading Islam's holy book on March 7 in 60 installments of a ...

"The Quran is part of a larger discussion, it's not just a holy book. It's a book of world heritage and world history," said Emran El-Badawi, director of the Arab Studies Program and assistant ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Every year, as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan approached, Surya Sahetapy and his close friends would start to feel depressed. They were at their wits’ ends about how to help ...