Int’l Quran Contest for Students, Opportunity for Boosting Islamic Unity
Speaking to IQNA, Seyed Hamid Reza Tayyebi, head of the Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR), said that at a time when certain sides are trying to present a distorted image of Islam, the contest should be used as a venue for promoting the true image of the religion and encourage unity in the Muslim world.
The Iranian Academics’ Quranic Activities Organization, affiliated to the ACECR, has organized the competition biannually since 2006 with the aim of promoting unity and cooperation among Muslim world students and elevating the level of Quranic activities.
The final round of the 6th edition of the international Quranic event is slated to be held in Iran later this month.
Tayyebi said the competition is also an opportunity to present a real image of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the world as a country that insists on implementing the teachings of Islam and has also made great strides in scientific and technological development.
Elsewhere, he referred to the ACECR’s other activities in Quranic fields, noting that it has established the International Quran News Agency and the Iranian Academics’ Quranic Activities Organization.
Tayyebi went on to say that on the ACECR’s agenda is also conducting interdisciplinary Quranic research studies.
Last month, Head of the Iranian Academics’ Quranic Activities Organization Hamid Saber Farzam told IQNA that the final round of the 6th International Quran Competition for Muslim Students will start on April 27 in Mashhad, northeast Iran.
He noted that as many as 203 university students from 73 countries sent recorded files of their Quran recitations to the secretariat of the contest in the preliminary round of the competition.
According to the official, some 100 of them made it to the semi-finals, which was held in the form of a phone-in competition.
From among them, he said, 40 students who scored the highest points were selected to take part in the final stage.
