Milton Keynes resident Maryam Jazeem, a 12-year-old multi-award-winning Quran reciter and the world’s first child to achieve mastery in Tajweed—the art of Quranic recitation—using a unique educational ...

Anyone who visits Bani Umayya al-Kabir Mosque, or the “Umayyad Mosque” in Damascus, as it is known, can also visit the tomb of St. John the Baptist inside the mosque. The premises contains two ...

During the month of Ramadan, Al Arabiya English is publishing a series of profiles on prominent historical figures in Islamic history. Maryam -- may peace be upon her -- is the only woman with a ...