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...As the invading army approached, the people of Sivas sued for peace by gathering their children in the plain in front of the city, each bearing a copy of the Koran....
...Ministers and the federal prosecutor in Belgium have said the gunman who attacked Swedes in Brussels was probably motivated by a series of Koran burnings carried out in the Scandinavian country in recent...
...Franciscan monk William of Rubruck, who was sent on a mission in 1253 to the Mongol khan, compared kumis with almond milk....
...During the Soviet time we prayed on the mountaintops and read the Koran in secret. It was illegal to have a Koran then. If they found one, they put you in jail. We reopened the shrine only in 1991....
...And his famous dictum, “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”, has echoes in the Koran....
...He liked big American cars and Hank Williams and Elvis. He didn’t drink, but he loved bars and the women who tended them....
...There are also mass-produced retail Islamic products such as Hajj wall-hangings, gold-embossed Korans, and Chinese-made Afghan rugs. It is a globalised landscape of things....
...A graduate of one of Turkey’s imam hatip religious high schools, the 23-year-old can still recite parts of the Koran by heart....
...Every day, he reads a chapter of the Koran with an online group of 10 friends. “We wouldn’t have been able to do that without Covid.”...
...Shakespeare, Herman Melville, William Blake, John Keats, Isaac Asimov, Bob Dylan and James Joyce were familiar, but there were also, like friendly shadows behind Rushdie’s words, medieval mystery plays:...
...That helped kill the spirit of inquiry encouraged by the Koran....
...To this day, I associate the Koran with severity, the sting of cold metal hitting knuckles. Muslims outside of the Arab world have an incoherent relationship with Arabic....
...Two expansive 19th-century rooms were refurbished by the architects Stanton Williams....
...Scholars such as d’Herbelot represented what Bevilacqua calls the “Arabic-reading Enlightenment” — a cast of bibliophiles that also included George Sale, translator of the Koran; Simon Ockley, historian...
...Islam had no William Tyndale as well as no Martin Luther....
...In the 1880s Lord Acton urged William Gladstone to read Das Kapital which, he said, is “the Koran of the new socialists”. Antony Black Dundee, Scotland...
...On Tuesday, William Hague, the former British foreign secretary, welcomed the announcement of the Saudi-led alliance, saying regional action could help curtail the growth of Islamist extremist militancy,...
...For the miller, personal attention given to him by the prison governor drew him into the rehabilitation programme, where he has had an opportunity to debate aspects of the Koran, and further his education...
...Submission, by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Lorin Stein, William Heinemann, RRP£18.99, 256 pages....
...meaty chops of Ben Jonson, or Joshua Reynolds’ sublimely weird portrait of the sublimely weird Laurence Sterne, or the first known portrait of an African in England, Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, a copy of the Koran...
...Through a pair of Doric columns a passage leads to a spectacular gold-domed room with Syrian tiles, an Arabic inscription from the Koran and a Moorish fountain in the centre, inspired by Leighton’s travels...
...He became a founder of the Khartoum School, a movement that made art from the Arabic calligraphy of the Koran....
...“O believers,” it declares in the Koran, “obey God, and obey the Prophet, and those set in authority over you.” Who those “set in authority” should be, though, it does not specify....
...Calligraphic pages from a 16th-century Koran are displayed near a fine silk weaving from the city where Sharma grew up....
...He said, Fine and went to find a Koran for me to swear my Oath of Allegiance with. I said the Bible would do, I’m British. He got a Koran and said, We do things properly in the British Army....
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