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Some of the first visitors at a newly opened Quran exhibition on Oct. 22 said they hoped the display would help overcome prejudice and spread awareness about Islam.      

"This exhibit will really help bring people together and it represents how much Islam has to offer American culture," said Doug Kempner, a 26-year-old from Washington D.C.

Turkey's top cleric has said his Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) will print copies of the Quran "24/7" to send to Muslims in other countries.

Diyanet President Mehmet Görmez said they would print copies of the Quran at a press in Ankara's Sincan district.

What may be the world?s oldest Quran fragments have been found by the University of Birmingham, the BBC has reported.

Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest currently in existence.

The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognized in the university?s library for almost a century.

Facsimiles of the oldest Qurans from the 1st century have been published by IRCICA in both print and digital formats for the first time. The Research Center for Islamic History, Arts and Culture (IRCICA) has published facsimiles of a number of the oldest Qurans from the 1st century, which have been kept in the world's most important libraries and museums. 

Turkey's main opposition leader has said the use of the Quran as an instrument for political purposes was an injustice to the religion of Islam itself, while also expressing deep sorrow over President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's charges against him and his party due to their alleged religious indifference.

Turkey?s top religious body, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), has finally completed a five-year effort of translating the Quran into Kurdish.

Turkey's top religious body, the Diyanet, has opened an investigation over a Quran-shaped cake made by a Quran class in the Black Sea province of Tokat in 2013, stating that the cake did not comply with the spirit of the Holy Birth of the Prophet Muhammad and the Quran.

Muslims reject ISIL's changes to Quran

In Islam the concept of death is not the end, but a transition to paradise for believers and a sentence to hellfire and doom for the wicked “Every soul will taste of death. And you will be paid your reward fully only on the day of resurrection.” (Quran 3:184).