Belmehdi: 50,000 students participated in Ramadan competitions, and Algeria is a fertile ground for education – Al-Hiwar Al-Jazaeryia

The Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments, Youssef Belmehdi, considered that the number of students who participated in Quran memorization competitions during the past month of Ramadan reflects the Algerians’ attachment to the foundations and principles of Islamic law.

Youssef Belmehdi said that about 50,000 students in Algeria participated in various competitions for memorizing the Qur’an during the past Ramadan, while about one million were registered in more than 18,000 Qur’anic schools in Algeria distributed over corners, schools and sections for Qur’anic education, in addition to the availability of more than 50 states across the country have bodies to teach the recitation of the Holy Quran, which makes Algeria a fertile land for education. The minister added that each committee includes between 5 and 25 members, some of whom are proficient in the ten recitations of the Holy Quran. In the context, Belmehdi pointed out, yesterday, Tuesday, during his supervision of the opening of the international forum entitled “The School of Readings in the Islamic West, its Supports, Performance Characteristics, and Radiation in the Islamic World” at Emir Abdelkader University of Islamic Sciences in Constantine, to the difficulty currently recorded in mastering the ten readings of the Holy Qur’an, while It was during the colonial era and in spite of oppression and pressure, the focus of the Algerian scholars to master these ten readings and they were able to do so similar to the region of the high mountains of Shallata.

Belmehdi spoke about the influence of Algeria in the African region, especially with regard to the transmission of various fields of science, including Islamic knowledge, with evidence that many scholars and sheikhs from the East and West would very much like to come to Algeria. And the minister enumerated what has been achieved in the field of Quranic education in a society that develops according to it “far from any form of extremism or exclusion.”

The minister praised the contributions of Algerian scholars in learning the recitation and interpretation of the Holy Qur’an, such as Abdelhamid Ben Badis, Taher Abidi, Sidi Abdelkader El Othmani and others, and the exploits achieved by researchers and professors in the field of Islamic sciences who work to spread Islamic links in Algeria and elsewhere.

For his part, the head of the Supreme Islamic Council, Bouabdallah Ghulamallah, considered the symposium an opportunity to enhance the effectiveness of recitation of the Holy Qur’an in teaching people, and called on the participants to deepen research on this subject in the service of Islam in the world.