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 ...

There was an unusual event in Haifa the other day. Muhammad Sharif Odeh, the leader of the Israeli community of the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam, announced the 25th anniversary of an Ahmadiyya-sponsored ...

A Nigerian Islamic scholar, Dr Dauda Awwal, has launched what he describes as the world’s first comprehensive Yoruba-English Qur’an translation, an initiative aimed at making the Islamic holy book ...