Alcoran
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Had he read the Golden Legend, the Turks' Alcoran, or Jews' Talmud, the Rabbins' Comments, what would he have thought?
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert
There is a famous Passage in the Alcoran, which looks as if Mahomet had been possessed of the Notion we are now speaking of.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
How grossly are they mistaken to suppose slavery to be disallowed by the Alcoran!
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 by Various
The inquisition likewise takes cognizance of such as are accused of being magicians, and of such who read the bible in the common language, the Talmud of the Jews, or the Alcoran of the Mahometans.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John
The particulars of this Passage, would be best explain'd by the Commentators upon the Alcoran, which I have no Opportunity of consulting.
From The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Tufail, Ibn
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