Istanbul School Prints Braille Copies of Quran to Help Visually-Impaired Students
The Camlik Alti School is in the city’s Küçükçekmece neighborhood, according to Madar21 website.
The copies printed in the school are provided to visually-impaired students in Turkey and abroad.
Ali Duman, a Quran teacher at the school who is visually-impaired, says when he started memorizing the Quran in 2010, access to such courses that use braille copies of the Quran was difficult.
With the launch of the Camlik Alti School in 2012, Qurans in braille were provided to those who needed them, he said.
Duman noted that some 1,000 copies of the Holy Book in braille have been printed so far, in addition to books in braille on Tajweed and other subjects.
The Qurans are printed in 900 pages and in six parts, each part containing 5 Juzes of the Quran, he added.
Duman said he has eight students who are learning the Quran by heart.
They began memorizing the Quran after learning how to read the braille alphabet in 1.5 months, he stated.
According to the teacher, the school also has a department for teaching the Arabic language and Islamic sciences.
Some of the students of the school have continued their studies at universities in Turkey and are now serving in different institutions, he went on to say.
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Braille is a writing system which enables the blind and partially-sighted people to read and write through touch.
It was invented by Louis Braille (1809-1852), who was blind and became a teacher of the blind.
In recent years, the Holy Quran and religious books have been printed in braille to help the visually-impaired Muslims read the texts with ease.
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