The Koran in English: A Biography is part of the series Lives of Great Religious Books launched by Princeton University Press. This series aims to provide biographical introductions to sacred texts ...

Of all the questions raised over reports that U.S. prison guards at Guantanamo Bay mishandled or desecrated the Islamic holy book, one would seem to have a simple answer: How should the name of said ...

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A Muslim and a Christian have made a new translation of the Quran to underline the similarities between their two religions. The authors, who are also friends, said they hoped the text would provide ...

Three requests to burn religious texts, including a Torah book, have been submitted to police in Sweden by self-described free-speech advocates in what would likely spark further international uproar ...

The prosecution of a man who allegedly burned a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London risks 'reintroducing a blasphemy law' in the UK, a court heard today. Hamit Coskun, 50, allegedly shouted ...

A Danish man who posed a video of himself setting fire to the Quran on Facebook has been charged with blasphemy in the first such prosecution for 46 years. The 42-year-old suspect put the clip, ...