Al-Azhar Awards Winners of Quran Memorization Contest

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Winners of a Quran memorization competition held for students of Al-Azhar Islamic Center in Egypt were awarded.       

Ibraheem al-Faham, an official with the center’s branch in Sinai, said the winners were awarded cash prizes, Egypt Today reported.

A total of 28 students were announced and awarded as winners, the official said.

The competition, named after imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmad Muhammad Al-Tayyeb, is annually organized by the center for students of its colleges and affiliated institutes.

The cash prizes awarded to the winners amounted to a total of 23 million Egyptian pounds.

Egypt is a country in North Africa with a population of around 96 million.

Muslims account for around 90 percent of the country’s total population.

Quranic activities are very common in the Muslim-majority Arab country and many of the Muslim world’s top Qaris in the past and present have been Egyptian.

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