The central religious text of Islam.
1 She learned me to read Arabic, and the book she gave me to exercise upon was the alcoran .
2 At those words he shut the alcoran , put it into a rich case, and laid it in the niche.
3 What says Alcoran ? - When the youths betook them to the cave they said, 'O our Lord!
4 Here he turned Mussulman, and, until 1790, was a zealous believer in, and professor of, the Alcoran .
5 The Saracen was not satisfied with this reason, nor with any other argument which Xavier used against the Alcoran .
6 Always an incorrigible flatterer, when Napoleon proclaimed himself Ali the Mussulman, De Menou professed himself Abdallah the believer in the Alcoran .
7 The whole of Africa right to Ethiopia and Nigritia obeys the book of the Alcoran , after having staggered under the book of the Gospel.
8 There is a famous passage in the Alcoran , which looks as if Mahomet had been possessed of the notion we are now speaking of.
9 The gospel has no more concern with them, and ought no more to be charged with them, than with the doctrines of the Alcoran .
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