Editing Juz' (section)

{{Short description|Any of the 30 parts of the Quran}}
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A '''''juzʼ''''' ([[Arabic]]: <big>{{lang|ar|جُزْءْ}}</big>; {{plural form}}: <big>{{lang|ar|أَجْزَاءْ}}</big>, ''ajzāʼ'';<ref>{{Cite web |last=Farhad |first=Massumeh |author-link=Massumeh Farhad |title=Art of Quran Preview |url=https://archive.asia.si.edu/research/publications/downloads/Art-of-Quran-Preview-1.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813022945/https://archive.asia.si.edu/research/publications/downloads/Art-of-Quran-Preview-1.pdf |archive-date=13 August 2018 |access-date=13 August 2018 |publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution]] |page=31}}</ref> {{literally|part}}) is one of thirty parts of varying lengths into which the [[Quran]] is divided.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/texts/quran_1.shtml|title=BBC - Religions - Islam: The Qur'an|date=14 July 2011|publisher=[[BBC]]|language=en-GB |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813021039/http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/texts/quran_1.shtml |archive-date=13 August 2018|url-status=live|access-date=2018-08-13}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://eweb.furman.edu/~ateipen/islam/quran-techs.htm|title=Quran Technical Observations|website=eweb.furman.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813021006/http://eweb.furman.edu/~ateipen/islam/quran-techs.htm|archive-date=13 August 2018|url-status=live|access-date=2018-08-13}}</ref> It is also known as '''parah''' ([[Persian language|Persian]]: {{Unq|پَارَه}}) in Iran and subsequently the [[Indian subcontinent]]. There are 30 ''ajzāʼ'' in the Quran, also known as {{Lang|ur|{{unq|سِپَارَہ}}}} – ''sipārah'' ("thirty parts"; in Persian ''si'' means 30).

During medieval times, when it was too costly for most Muslims to purchase a manuscript, copies of the Qurʼān were kept in mosques and made accessible to people; these copies frequently took the form of a series of thirty parts (''juzʼ'').<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xUu04ozMXOcC|title=The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an|last=Déroche|first=François|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2006|isbn=9781405178440|editor-last=Rippin|editor-first=Andrew|editor-link=Andrew Rippin|location=Oxford|pages=180|language=en|author-link=François Déroche}}</ref> Some use these divisions to facilitate recitation of the Qurʼān in a month—such as during [[Ramadan (calendar month)|the Islamic month of Ramadan]],<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> when the entire Qurʼān is recited in the ''[[Tarawih]]'' prayers, typically at the rate of one ''juzʼ'' a night.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}