The Alphabet of the Holy Quran and Tajweed of the Holy Quran have been published

The books The Alphabet of the Holy Quran and Tajweed of the Holy Quran written by Mirniyaz Mursalov, Vice-Rector for Science and Innovations of Azerbaijan Institute of Theology (AIT), have been published.

The Alphabet of the Holy Quran is the literature designed to teach the first stage of the recitation of the Qur'an. The introduction of the book provides extensive information about the history of the Holy Quran. Following the general information, the book then presents the names of the letters, their points of articulation, features and discusses their spelling at the beginning, middle and end of the words in detail. The points of articulations for the letters are also marked in alphabetical order.

The book contains separate explanatory parts about spelling words with sukoon, tashdeed and tanween.

It also includes an extensive chapter on the letters Mad and Muqatta’at, followed by prayers and surahs of the Holy Quran. The book uses the experience of other Muslim countries, as well as the Faculty of Theology of Baku State University, which operated in the country from 1992 to 2018.

The book Tajweed of the Holy Quran is the literature designed to teach the second stage of the recitation of the Qur'an. Following the information about the definition, purpose, and rules of tajweed, the example discusses the errors that will occur when reciting the Qur'an and the effect of these errors during prayer. Then, according to the tradition, the rules of tajweed such as mad, idgam, the rulings of the nun and tanween, the rulings of the mim, the rulings related to the letter-definition, the rulings related to the letter ra, the rules of taqwa, ishmam, imala, and tashil are explained theoretically with examples from the Holy Quran. Several rules are categorized by schemes to make them clearer and easier to remember.

Both books have been prepared on the basis of the Azerbaijani, Arabic and Turkish sources.