The historic English-language Quran, translated with a preface by George Sale, has never traveled outside the United States since it arrived in what was then colonial America. The two-volume set was printed in London in 1764.

According to the Library of Congress, Jefferson’s Quran will be the “first object on display after guests emerge from a sound and light experience that showcases the U.S. founding principles, particularly its innovations. Jefferson and the Quran are the first example of those goals.”

The Dubai Expo 2020 is the latest world’s fair of “the works of industry of all nations” that began in London in 1851 and has taken place at varying intervals ever since. More than 192 countries have pavilions at this year’s event, which began on October 1 under strict COVID-19 protocols. More than 25 million visitors from around the world are set to visit the event.

Source: Religion News Service

Its Patron, His Highness Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance of the United Arab Emirates, officially opened The College – originally known as Al-Maktoum Institute – in May 2002.

Abertay University originally validated its masters and postgraduate programs and then a subsequent validation agreement with the University of Aberdeen ran for a successful period of eight years.

A total of 175 students from more than 30 countries have graduated from the College’s contemporary, postgraduate degree programs.

The Academic Training Program (ATP) and Summer School educational programs were introduced in 2003 and demand continues to grow for these.

Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) awarded and credit-rated courses started in 2014 and SQA accredited certificates were also offered for ATP students for the first time in 2015.

With the aim of running MSc programs in the specialized area of Islamic Finance, a new collaboration agreement was agreed with the University of Dundee in 2016.

The College is proud to be part of the community in Dundee. In 2009 it opened its Community Fund to help support groups and charities in the city and surrounding areas.

• MSc Islamic Finance
• HNC/Diploma in Management & Leadership
• HNC/HND in Business
• Advanced Diploma in Arabic Language
• Advanced Diploma in Islamic Studies
• Certificate in Arabic Language
• Diploma in Arabic Language
• Introductory Certificate in Arabic Language
• Professional Diploma in Islamic Economics & Finance

Contacts

• Address: Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education, 124 Blackness Road, Dundee, UK
• Phone: +44 1382 908070
• Email: admissions@almcollege.ac.uk
• Website:  http://almcollege.ac.uk/

Trees bearing grapes, figs, pomegranates, and olives dot the park’s 64 hectares. They highlight the medical and scientific uses of plants mentioned in the Holy Quran and Sunnah (Hadith of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)).

Visitors to the cave can learn about the story of Hazrat Isa (AS) making a bird from clay and six other prophetic miracles mentioned in the Quran, using 3D map and hologram displays (see also: Story of Jesus).

This is a great initiative taken to enhance the understanding of Islam as well as showcase some things visually the best way possible.

Source: IslamicFinder

The display launches a year of cultural collaboration between the UK and the UAE, with the replica of the Koran fragments being presented to the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Media captionHow the BBC broke the news of the discovery of the ancient Koran Prince Charles said the manuscript’s discovery had “captured the world’s imagination”. “At a time when so much of mankind’s cultural heritage is being deliberately destroyed or threatened, we can only be heartened by the discovery of a previously unrecognized treasure,” he wrote. The so-called Islamic State group has deliberately smashed historical artefacts and cultural sites in Iraq and Syria.

The original Koran fragment, at least 1,370 years old, remains in the University of Birmingham. The university had held the manuscript since the 1920s, but when it was radio-carbon dated last year it was found to be much older than anyone had expected. The range of dates, established by tests carried out by the University of Oxford, showed that the manuscript was among the earliest surviving fragments of the Koran and could be the oldest in existence.

The parchment, with verses of the Koran written on either sheep or goatskin, was put on public display in Birmingham. But for the first time, a digital replica of the manuscript has been taken out of the UK and is being put on show at events in the United Arab Emirates. It will also mark the symbolic return, at least in replica form, of a manuscript that was made in the Middle East in the earliest years of the Muslim faith. An investigation into the likely origin of the Birmingham manuscript showed that it was related to a similar document held in Paris, which had been brought to Europe by a vice-consul of Napoleon.

The Birmingham manuscript had been acquired in the 1920s by Alphonse Mingana, an Assyrian, from what is now modern-day Iraq, whose collecting trips to the Middle East were funded by the Cadbury family. The university’s vice-chancellor, Sir David Eastwood, said the Birmingham Koran manuscript was of “huge significance to Muslim heritage and the academic study of Islam”.

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