Alcoran
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Incorrectly called the Alcoran, l'Alcoran, or il Alcorano, 351.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey
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 Tufail, Ibn
"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)
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 Essays and Tales by Morley, 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
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