Will Smith has recently opened up about reading the Holy Quran from cover to cover after Oscar slap controversy.During an appearance on BigTime podcast earlier this week, the Men in Black actor ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — More than a tenth of the 1,093 religion objects at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture are Muslim artifacts. And as the Muslim holy month ...

Among the artifacts on display are a photographed copy of the Qur’an manuscript of Uthman bin Affan and several ancient stone inscriptions of Qur’anic verses.

The Smithsonian show isn't about the words of the Quran so much as the people who laboriously copied it, letter by letter. When they made a mistake, they fixed it with flourish — and sometimes gold.