There is no higher goal in Muslim life than to become a human repository of the Holy Book; there is no more common sound in the Muslim world than the sound of Koranic recitation.Reciting the Koran is the backbone of Muslim education.
The foundations are blessed amid secret prayers, a mixture of Koranic verse and local magical incantation.
In 2002, there were violent confrontations over failing water and power supplies in Nardaran, which is home to a Shia shrine and has Koranic verses painted on the walls.
It comes up again in the Muslim idea of flowing streams and plentiful virgins, though he notes that huri (Persian for nymph) may be a Koranic mistranslation of the Aramaic for "white raisin .Yearning for abundance alternates with the idea that real paradise is swapping earthly pleasure for something better.
Instead, the arraignment hearing of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other al-Qaeda suspects became another instalment in the long-running farce or tragedy of America's prison camp at Guantánamo Bay".KSM", as security types usually refer to the camp's most famous inmate, was chatting, laughing and reciting Koranic verses throughout the proceedings.
His book, "Textual Criticism and Qur'an Manuscripts", says efforts to standardise went on for four centuries after Uthman.Before the beginningExcitement surrounds the study of some Koranic material found in Yemen in 1972.
To impose their Koranic writ they have bombed coffee shops, internet cafés and salons for women that employ male hairdressers.
And too few teachers are capable of melding Western and Koranic curriculums.Moreover, in some Muslim communities in the north people doubt the merit of Western education, seeing it as a threat to their own traditions, leading even to a kind of enslavement to alien values.
Iran claims they were delivering humanitarian aid.Iran has nervously shunned the Taliban ever since 1994, when they emerged from Koranic schools in refugee camps in Pakistan to burst upon the Afghan scene.
He believes that Koranic punishment such as hand-chopping and stoning should be applied, although with more restraint than under the Taliban.
The government helps to pay for Koranic schools (complete with girls in tudungs) and mosque construction.
