INTERNATIONAL QUR’AN COMPETITION

Iran took the first place award at the second edition of Muslim Students International Qur’an Competition held in Tehran last week. The countries of Indonesia and Egypt took the second and third place respectively. Iranian Mohammad-Hassan Movahedi took the first place prize in the recitation section, and Mehdi Hosseini grabbed the first place prize in the memorisation of the entire Qur’an section. The jury also selected Nafi Muhammad Jalal Abdurrahman Adib from Egypt and Jonaidain Edrus from Indonesia as the second and third winners in the recitation section. In the section of the memorisation of the entire Qur’an, the second award went to Ahsan Ashari from Indonesia and the third to Muhammad Amir Towhidi from Afghanistan. The awards were presented to the winners in the closing ceremony held at the Conference Hall of Tehran’s Milad Tower. Over 40 participants from 42 countries took part in this year’s competition which showed a much higher interest in participation as compared to the previous edition two years ago, Khaki said.