- a variation of Alkoran.
Alcoran
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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
The speech of these people is Arabic, and they have got books of the Alcoran, and honour greatly their prophet Muhamad.
From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte
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 Turkish priests, or dervises, have their Scripture which they call the Alcoran.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan
"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)
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