Children study the national curriculum in the morning and receive a Koranic education in the afternoon.
Even here where restoration is futile, Uzbeks are busy righting minarets and retouching Koranic script.
The Chechens became famous for their warrior prowess, the Dagestanis for their Koranic learning.
Such punishments run counter to the clear Koranic injunction "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256).
Pakistan objected to the depiction of Adam, which it said broke a prohibition on depicting Koranic figures.
Nine children have been killed by a fire at a Koranic school near the centre of Senegal's capital, Dakar.
Reportedly, for the first two days, Mohammed robotically recited Koranic verses and refused to divulge much more than his name.
In plush shopping malls, tight jeans vie with veils, just as on Kuwait's airwaves blaring pop clashes with Koranic recitation.
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Seven Koranic teachers in Senegal have been condemned to jail sentences after they were found guilty of forcing children to beg.
Tens of thousands of Koranic school graduates are being appointed as judges, assuring they will increasingly serve as instruments of Shari'a religious law.
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District co-ordination officer Kamran Khan said that the blast went off in a teacher's house, where Koranic lessons for children were regularly held.
They argue that the Koranic authority for this is the story of God's destruction of the city of Sodom because of its citizens' sins.
President Macky Sall meanwhile visited the scene of the fire along with senior government officials on Monday and promised to tackle the long-standing issue of Koranic schools.
The emir's convoy was attacked by unknown gunmen as he was returning from Koranic graduation ceremony in Kano city, Kano state governor Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso told AFP news agency.
Scholars from around the Islamic world traveled to the oasis city to study at the prestigious University of Sankore, which had some 25, 000 students and 180 Koranic schools in its heyday.
While it is often depicted by its promoters as Koranic in character, in fact, it is largely man-made, the product of dictates and rulings by caliphs and scholars over many centuries.
He pointed to a decree issued by the highest Sunni authority, Al-Azhar in Egypt, which he said forbade "any musical arrangement of a Koranic verse, in order to prevent any violation of Islam".
His comments follow reports that a judge in Lebanon has sent a formal charge against Mr Khalife to the country's senior prosecutor for setting to music a poem by the Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish based on a Koranic verse.
If one is looking for feminine equality in Islam in the way it is defined by liberals, it will be a waste of time because the Koranic view of woman as the bedrock of humanity is more sublime and dignified.
These are the places where mostly poor people send their children for learning Koranic teaching, basic education, and the other attraction, of course, is that there is free boarding and lodging over there, and with the Pakistani educational system in shambles, this is a pretty attractive place for poor families to send their children.
Academia, especially area studies, seems to exist solely now just to put the best spin on things and to make, you know, if, you know, your area of study is the Muslim world, none of these things that we're talking about, these historical aspects, these primary sources, Koranic and historical, that I'm quoting, you'll never hear these.
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