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Alcoran

American  
[al-kaw-rahn, -ran, -koh-] / ˌæl kɔˈrɑn, -ˈræn, -koʊ- /

noun

  1. Alkoran.


Alcoran British  
/ ˌælkɒˈrɑːn /

noun

  1. another name for the Koran

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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 Robert Burton

And in the Alcoran; You did not kill them, but God kill'd them; when thou threwest the Darts, it was not thou that threwest them, but God.

From The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Ibn Tufail

Here are also several Effendies, or masters of learning, who daily expound out of the Alcoran, sitting in high chairs, and some of the learned Pilgrims, whilst they are here, do undertake the same.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

Golden on his trappings shining   Blessing of the Alcoran!

From Russian Lyrics by Martha Dickinson Bianchi

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