- a variation of Alkoran.
Alcoran
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The style of a volume entitled "Impressions"—a kind of Alcoran, which used formerly to be sold to visitors in the Temple—does not rise much above the foregoing, either in its verse or prose.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
Every Chapter in the Alcoran begins so, and all their Authors have followed this way ever price.
From The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Ibn Tufail
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 Ibn Tufail
I'll leave him his Alcoran, that's revenue enough for him; every page of it is gold and diamonds.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
On one side of these was represented the head of the reigning caliph, and on the other appeared his name, with some passages from the Alcoran.
From History of the Moors of Spain by M. Florian
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