(Reuters) - A boy reads the Koran at Sunehri (golden) mosque, a religious seminary in Peshawar February 18, 2010. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION)... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - An Iraqi schoolgirl reads Koranic verses during religion class at the Zuhur elementary school in Baghdad. Thumbing through Iraq's newly published "Islamic Education" manual, some Iraqis are furious about photographs illustr... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A man writes verses of the Koran on a wooden board in a suburb outside Mauritania's capital Nouakchott December 5, 2009. Wooden boards are used by children studying in religious schools in the country to practice reading and writing t... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - Saudi boys recite verses from the Koran, Islam's holy book, at a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah in August. The US State Department report on religious freedom in some 200 countries serves as a basis for an upcoming US list of n... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - A teacher teaching Koran to students in a religious school in 2007 in Gisar, Tajikistan. New governmnet guidelines published on Monday stipulates that teachers aged under 50 in Tajikistan can no longer grow beards but are allowed to give... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Muslim women read the Koran near a grave on the first day of Eid al-Fitr at a cemetery in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, September 20, 2009. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar,... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Shi'ite Muslim men hold the Koran above their heads, as they observe the last ten days of the holy month of Ramadan, inside Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, early September 9, 2009. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish ... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A girl reads a basic Koranic book, known as the Juz-Amma, which consists of lessons on how to correctly read the Koran, translate the text into Bahasa as well as a guide for daily prayers, during the holy month of Ramadan in Jakarta Septe... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A man reads Koran at a mosque in Tripoli September 4, 2009. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking and sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. REUTERS/Zohra Bensem... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A Koran restorer holds one of the damaged holy books in his workshop at a mosque in Tripoli September 4, 2009. As Muslims are not allowed to throw away the Koran, old and worn copies of the sacred text are restored so that they may be use... [Full Article]