Each year during Ramadan - a Muslim holy month when believers fast, pray and read from the Quran - 100 students from more than 70 countries flock to Cairo for the International Holy Quran Competition.

There are also other activities — such as a competition last weekend in Charlotte where children as young as 4 years old were tested on their memorization and recitation of parts of the Quran.

U.S. Muslim kids memorize QuranNISKAYUNA, N.Y. — Taha Haq was all of 5 years old when he stood in front of a Muslim congregation and read from the Quran in Arabic. It wasn’t so hard, he ...

Ammar Haq has all 6,236 verses of the Quran committed to memory. At any moment, he can dial up a chapter in his mind and recite it, word for word, in Arabic with the same pronunciation and accent a… ...

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: Muslim kids typically begin fasting all day for Ramadan around the time they hit puberty. But some can't wait to get started. Take 8 1/2-year-old Dunya Esfahani in Michigan.