- a variation of Alkoran.
Alcoran
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"I had rather," he says, "believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind."
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)
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 Scadding, Henry
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
From these fragments, soon after his death, was compiled the celebrated Alcoran.
From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William
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
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