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  • Falling-down palace—stars shining through at night—birds in the roof An old Javanese man taught us the Koran.†   (source)
  • She told them her husband was on his way to the mosque carrying a Koran.†   (source)
  • He also announced that interpretation of the Koran since the Shi'ites" seedship days had definitely shown that the God of Islam would neither condone nor allow the slaughter of the innocent, no matter how many jihads were proclaimed by tinhorn heretics like the New Prophet.†   (source)
  • He was only just old enough to have a decent beard, but he had wild, crazy eyes, and he stared at me like I'd just rejected the entire teachings of the Koran.†   (source)
  • When Salman Rushdie wrote The Satanic Verses (1988), he caused his characters to parody (inorder to show their wickedness, among other things) certain events and persons from the Koran and the life of the Prophet.†   (source)
  • Qur'an meant "Recitation."†   (source)
  • In the Koran, the angels who are sent to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah say, We are sent forth to a wicked nation, so that we may bring down on them a shower of clay-stones marked by your Lord for the destruction of the sinful.†   (source)
  • …of Chusuk, the Buddislamic Variants of the types dominant at Lankiveil and Sikun, the Blend Books of the Mahayana Lankavatara, the Zen Hekiganshu of III Delta Pavonis, the Tawrah and Talmudic Zabur surviving on Salusa Secundus, the pervasive Obeah Ritual, the Muadh Quran with its pure Ilm and Fiqh preserved among the pundi rice farmers of Caladan, the Hindu outcroppings found all through the universe in little pockets of insulated pyons, and finally, the Butlerian Jihad.†   (source)
  • The Muslims' holy scripture, the Koran, and the Old Testament were both written in the Semitic family of languages.†   (source)
  • Baba Hajji remained up, reading the Koran in a singsong chant at the top of his lungs.†   (source)
  • Inshallah, I will keep it and marry Amir Fadlan in accordance with the teachings of the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.†   (source)
  • We're speaking the sacred language of the Qur'an, the language of great calipha and Saladin, the most beautiful and intricate of all human tongues."†   (source)
  • As far as I'm concerned, the Koran is as bad as the Bible.†   (source)
  • The reason there are so many Muslim terrorists, they argued, has little to do with the Koran but a great deal to do with the lack of robust female participation in the economy and society of many Islamic countries.†   (source)
  • The UN and Americans want to take over Somalia, burn the Koran, and take your firstborn children.†   (source)
  • Then a tender boy of seven would be reciting from the Koran one day with his classmates when the floorboards would give way with a fearful crack and his arteries would be severed by this offensive and unreliable substance.†   (source)
  • Just like someone wrote the Quran, and the Talmud.†   (source)
  • The Quran teaches us that God created us from a single pair, and made us into nations and tribes so that we may know each other, not so that we may despise each other.†   (source)
  • In high school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Bin Laden joined an Islamic study group that memorized the entire Koran.†   (source)
  • His hapless head was made to taste The knuckles of my friend the Mallam: 'If you were then reciting the Koran Would you have ears for idle noises Darkening the trees, you child of ill omen?†   (source)
  • "How well do you know the Koran and the Hadith?" he asked suddenly.†   (source)
  • They had the Koran and its laws; they stuck to certain fashions in dress, wore a certain kind of cap, had a special cut of beard; and that was all.†   (source)
  • — The Koran, Surah V, 32 Each year we gain a little.†   (source)
  • Soraya kissed the carefully wrapped manuscript and Khala Jamila insisted we pass it under the Koran.   (source)
    Koran = sacred writings of Islam
  • One of Soraya's cousins, Sharif jan's son, held a Koran over our heads as we inched along.   (source)
  • A mullah chanted surrahs from the Koran into a microphone.   (source)
  • The mullah questioned the witnesses and read from the Koran.   (source)
  • But when a Koran ayat I had learned in my diniyat class rose to my lips, I muttered it.   (source)
  • Hassan stood in the threshold of the house and held the Koran as we all kissed it and passed under it.   (source)
  • The mullah and another man got into an argument over which was the correct ayat of the Koran to recite at the gravesite.   (source)
  • His son had held the Koran over our heads as Soraya and I had walked toward the stage, smiling at the flashing cameras.   (source)
  • He recited a lengthy prayer from the Koran, his nasal voice undulating through the sudden hush of the stadium's crowd.   (source)
  • His son had held the Koran over our heads as Soraya and I had walked toward the stage, smiling at the flashing cameras.   (source)
  • He spoke some verses from the Koran, and moved on.†   (source)
  • It exists in all the enduring texts, from the Bible to the Bhagavad Gita to the Koran and beyond.†   (source)
  • She began reading about Islam, investigating the Qur'an.†   (source)
  • He showed her the Koran he had brought with him and opened it.†   (source)
  • Whenever a child was born in his family, someone made a notation in the family Koran.†   (source)
  • She sat on a prayer mat and recited from the Quran.†   (source)
  • We all said surahs from the Quran and a special prayer to protect our sweet homes and school.†   (source)
  • "Let's look at the Qur'an," they would say.†   (source)
  • The Koran says Allah is the East and the West, therefore wherever you turn there is Allah's purpose.†   (source)
  • The boys learn the Quran by heart, rocking back and forth as they recite.†   (source)
  • From a cassette player, a man's nasal voice chanted verses from the Koran.†   (source)
  • The answers the Qur'an provided gave her a way forward.†   (source)
  • Then she started saying prayers in Urdu and reciting verses of the Quran.†   (source)
  • She read the Qur'an and was struck by its power and lyricism.†   (source)
  • Mariam's final thoughts were a few words from the Koran, which she muttered under her breath.†   (source)
  • He got out of bed and looked for his Qur'an.†   (source)
  • You taught me every surrah and ayat in the Koran years ago.†   (source)
  • We are dependent on these mullahs to learn the Quran," he said.†   (source)
  • Books, except the Koran, were burned in heaps, the stores that sold them closed down.†   (source)
  • Nowhere is it written in the Quran that a woman should be dependent on a man.†   (source)
  • He promised he would rededicate himself to the study of the Koran.†   (source)
  • The Quran says we should seek knowledge, study hard and learn the mysteries of our world.†   (source)
  • Of late, with Laila's blessing, Mariam had started teaching Aziza verses from the Koran.†   (source)
  • There is a saying in the Quran, "The falsehood has to go and the truth will prevail."†   (source)
  • This is why the Holy Koran forbids sharab.†   (source)
  • In the Quran it is written, God wants us to have knowledge.†   (source)
  • He introduced himself as an Islamic reformer and an interpreter of the Quran.†   (source)
  • But I am pointing out that the Quran names Maryam.†   (source)
  • We found our mother sitting in a chair holding the Quran, reciting verses over and over.†   (source)
  • People thought that he was a good interpreter of the Holy Quran and admired his charisma.†   (source)
  • "I'd heard you were an infidel," he said to my father, "but there are Qurans in your room."†   (source)
  • A Muslim holding a Quran in his hands stands near a Catholic woman fingering her rosary.†   (source)
  • The meeting lasted about five hours, most of the time consumed in prayers and Koran reading.†   (source)
  • The Koran has quotation after quotation that says you must treat women well.†   (source)
  • He picked up his dog-eared, grease-spotted Koran and held it before the flames.†   (source)
  • When he wasn't pretending to read the Koran, Mortenson turned to his Time magazine for comfort.†   (source)
  • I swear to the Koran that I would never make you live someplace against your will.†   (source)
  • The Koran study classes began shortly after school let out.†   (source)
  • "El Koran?" he said, miming a man of faith paging through a holy book.†   (source)
  • He admitted to the truth of my story that he had taken an oath on the Koran.†   (source)
  • The single diversion available to me was the Koran, an English translation by Rashad Khalifa, Ph.†   (source)
  • The exception in the schedule was Thursday's Koran study class.†   (source)
  • How can you allow him to do this to me after he promised to the Koran?†   (source)
  • His Koran, being the most recent holy book, takes precedence over the Old and New Testaments.†   (source)
  • Despite my husband's dramatic and solemn promise to the Koran, I was beset by increasing doubts.†   (source)
  • I could hear Ameh Bozorg in her bedroom at the other end of the house, also reading the Koran.†   (source)
  • "On Thursdays you will come home right after Koran study class," he said.†   (source)
  • I can't come because I have Koran study class," she said.†   (source)
  • Moody explained that I was studying the Koran, learning about Islam at my own pace.†   (source)
  • The Bible, the Koran, Buddhist scripture …. they all carry similar requirements-and similar penalties.†   (source)
  • For Christians, the Word was the Bible, for Muslims the Koran, for Jews the Torah, for Hindus the Vedas, and on and on it went.†   (source)
  • School was really the back room of the village mosque where, in addition to teaching Koran recitation, Mullah Shekib had taught every child in the village to read and write, to memorize poetry.†   (source)
  • Mullah Faizullah admitted to Mariam that, at times, he did not understand the meaning of the Koran's words.†   (source)
  • At one point, I told the Army colonel, "I don't shoot people with Korans—I'd like to, but I don't."†   (source)
  • For example, the Koran states over and over again that it is a transcript, an exact copy, of a book in Heaven.†   (source)
  • Then there was Sundays, when I put on a white cotton scarf, and he dropped me off at the mosque in Hayward for Koran lessons.†   (source)
  • I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.†   (source)
  • He comes without fail to Friday prayer, and his knowledge of the Holy Qur'an is coming along nicely."†   (source)
  • Then he said, "The Prophet gave us the Koran, and left us just five obligations to satisfy during our lives.†   (source)
  • Uncle Abdullah began his speech in Persian, read passages from the Koran in Arabic, then translated everything into English.†   (source)
  • He quoted from the Holy Qur'an: "In all this there are messages indeed for a people who use their reason."†   (source)
  • He would then discuss the word's evolution into its present form and throw in a few quotes from the Koran for good measure.†   (source)
  • Uncle Abdullah also officiated at aqd ceremonies, a job that allowed him to utilize his in-depth knowledge of Arabic and the Koran.†   (source)
  • The most important part of our ritual involved my mother's holding the Koran at the top of the doorframe while we each walked under it.†   (source)
  • Rather than go into the whole "We somehow lost the Koran and that's why we have the same birthday" story, my parents just smiled and hoped the waitress would go away.†   (source)
  • There were Muslims who treated their faith lightly, and those who knew every word of the Qur'an and its companion guide to behavior, the Hadith.†   (source)
  • Then Zeitoun would quote the Qur'an.†   (source)
  • The flood, and now the fire: it was difficult not to think of passages in the Qur'an that recounted the flood of Noah, the evidence of God's wrath.†   (source)
  • Muhammad became the conduit for these messages, and The Qur'an, then, was simply the word of God in written form.†   (source)
  • But Mariam's favorite, other than Jalil of course, was Mullah Faizullah, the elderly village Koran tutor, its akhund.†   (source)
  • She had no idea, for instance, that the Qur'an was filled with the same people as the Bible—Moses, Mary, Abraham, Pharaoh, even Jesus.†   (source)
  • The Koran speaks the truth, my girl.†   (source)
  • He was known for anecdotes, and parables from Syria, quotations from the Qur'an, stories from his travels around the world.†   (source)
  • The Qur'an asked that Muslims wash themselves before their prayers, and there was no means of doing so here.†   (source)
  • The lake had snatched him from Rasheed, swallowed him up, just as a whale had swallowed the boy's namesake prophet in the Koran.†   (source)
  • Mariam remembered the day they'd buried Nana and how little comfort she had found when Mullah Faizullah had quoted the Koran for her.†   (source)
  • In the Qur'an, Gabriel is described as having six hundred wings, and is assumed to have accompanied Muhammad when he ascended to the heavens.†   (source)
  • But she learned that there were Shiite and Sunni interpretations of the Qur'an, and within any mosque there were the same variations in faith and commitment as there were in any church.†   (source)
  • But remember, my girl, what the Koran says, 'Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He Who has power over all things, Who created death and life that He may try you.'†   (source)
  • The Qur'an asked Muslims to worship five times daily: once between first light and dawn; again after midday; at mid-afternoon; at sunset; and lastly an hour and a half after sunset.†   (source)
  • Gul Makai uses the Holy Quran to teach her elders that war is bad and they eventually stop fighting and allow the lovers to unite.†   (source)
  • There are tearful farewells with Sayeed as well For good luck, he holds a Koran by the doorway for Tariq, Laila, and the children to kiss three times, then holds it high so they can pass under it.†   (source)
  • Korans were kissed, passed under.†   (source)
  • "A girl is so sacred she should be in purdah, and so private that there is no lady's name in the Quran, as God doesn't want her to be named."†   (source)
  • But Zeitoun knew that the Qur'an allowed that if there was no water available, Muslims could use dust to cleanse themselves, even if only ceremoniously.†   (source)
  • She was taken to the room with the long, brown table, except now there was a bowl of sugar-coated almond candy in the middle of the table, a Koran, a green veil, and a mirror.†   (source)
  • She flipped through the Qur'an.†   (source)
  • We used to have Islamic studies teachers—qari sahibs—who came to our home to teach the Quran to me and other local children.†   (source)
  • He came by once or twice a week from Gul Daman to teach Mariam the five daily namaz prayers and tutor her in Koran recitation, just as he had taught Nana when she'd been a little girl.†   (source)
  • In Pakistan we have something called the Blasphemy Law, which protects the Holy Quran from desecration.†   (source)
  • There were passive Muslims, uncertain Muslims, borderline agnostic Muslims, devout Muslims, and Muslims who twisted the words of the Qur'an to suit their temporary desires and agendas.†   (source)
  • She hadn't known that Muslims consider the Qur'an the fourth book of God to His messengers, after the Old Testament (referred to as the Tawrat, or the Law), the Psalms (the Zabur), and the New Testament (Injeil).†   (source)
  • Together they studied all the 30 chapters of the Quran, not just recitation but also interpretation, something few boys do.†   (source)
  • Here, Laila can lay her cheek on the softness of Mariam's lap again, can feel Mariam swaying back and forth, reciting verses from the Koran, can feel the words vibrating down Mariam's body, to her knees, and into her own ears.†   (source)
  • In Islam, the archangel Gabriel, the same Gabriel who in the Bible spoke to the Virgin Mary and foretold the birth of Jesus, is believed to be the messenger who revealed the Qur'an to the Prophet Muhammad.†   (source)
  • He was only there for the last day, when family members held a Quran and a shawl over their heads and held a mirror for them to look into.†   (source)
  • She remembered a verse from the Koran that Mullah Faizullah had taught her: And Allah is the East and the West, therefore wherever you turn there is Allah's purpose… She laid down her prayer rug and did namaz.†   (source)
  • It's in the Koran.†   (source)
  • In the early hours, Zeitoun, weakened by lack of sleep and food and the grim nothingness of his surroundings, recalled the passage of the Qur'an called al-Takwir, or "The Darkening": In the Name of God The Merciful, The Compassionate When the sun is darkening, when the stars plunge down, when the mountains have been set in motion, when the pregnant camels have been ignored, when the savage beasts have been assembled together, when the seas have been caused to overflow, when the souls hav†   (source)
  • She began praying with the Holy Quran in her hand, standing facing the wall reciting verses over and over for hours.†   (source)
  • He passed her his Koran.†   (source)
  • They think their greatest concern is defending Islam and are being led astray by those like the Taliban who deliberately misinterpret the Quran.†   (source)
  • The fact that the Qur'an repeatedly reaches out to the other, related faiths, knocked her flat: We have believed in God and what has been sent forth to us, and what was sent forth to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes and what was given the Prophets from their Lord; we separate and divide not between any one of them; and we are the ones who submit to Him.†   (source)
  • Mullahs often misinterpret the Quran and Hadith when they teach them in our country, as few people understand the original Arabic.†   (source)
  • My father was so worried that for the whole time he repeated a verse of the Holy Quran over and over.†   (source)
  • In the Holy Quran it is not written that men should go outside and women should work all day in the home.†   (source)
  • I used to say the Ayat al-Kursi, the Verse of the Throne from the second surah of the Quran, the Chapter of the Cow.†   (source)
  • The Quran teaches us sabar—patience—but often it feels that we have forgotten the word and think Islam means women sitting at home in purdah or wearing burcias while men do jihad.†   (source)
  • They described the roar of rocks sliding down hills and everyone running out of their houses reciting the Quran, the screams as roofs crashed down and the howls of the buffaloes and goats.†   (source)
  • His sermons were often illustrated by world events or historical happenings as well as stories from the Quran and the Hadith, the sayings of the Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him.†   (source)
  • Though later he became less regular in his prayers, in those days he used to leave home at dawn every morning to walk to a mosque in another village, where he studied the Quran with a senior talib.†   (source)
  • Yet my mother still believed it was written in the Quran that women should not go out and women should not talk to men other than relatives they cannot marry.†   (source)
  • By the time the Taliban came I had finished my recitation of the complete Quran, what we call Khatam ul-Quran, much to the delight of Baba, my grandfather the cleric.†   (source)
  • Faiz Mohammad had told her she should recite the Surah of the Haj, the chapter of the Quran about pilgrimage, and she recited over and over again the same twelve verses (58-70) about the all-powerfulness of God.†   (source)
  • The meeting started with recitations from the Chapter of Victory—a surah from the Quran — followed by speeches from different leaders in the five districts of our valley —Kohistan, Malakand, Shangla, Upper Dir and Lower Dir.†   (source)
  • We Muslims are split between Sunnis and Shias—we share the same fundamental beliefs and the same Holy Quran, but we disagree over who was the right person to lead our religion when the Prophet, PBUH, died in the seventh century.†   (source)
  • These clerics said 9/11 was revenge on the Americans for what they had been doing to other people around the world, but they ignored the fact that the people in the World Trade Center were innocent and had nothing to do with American policy and that the Holy Quran clearly says it is wrong to kill.†   (source)
  • Instead, she explained that her parents were secular and that she did not discover the beauty of the Koran until she was at university.†   (source)
  • In the Holy Quran, God tells us, "I created you into diverse nations and tribes that you may come to know one another.†   (source)
  • Another dispute about the Koran concerns the idyllic black-eyed virgins who supposedly will attend to men in the Islamic afterlife.†   (source)
  • Consequently, she did not confess that she had not cracked the Koran before settling into a farmhouse in the Valley of Jezreel.†   (source)
  • It crucifies because, according to the Koran, crucifixion is one of the proscribed punishments for the enemies of Islam.†   (source)
  • All in all, Muhammad comes across in the Koran and the traditions associated with him as much more respectful of women than early Christian leaders.†   (source)
  • Do you see how beautiful this Koran is?†   (source)
  • Often it is the first time that either women or men have realized that there are such verses in the Koran.†   (source)
  • He prayed five times a day when he heard the call from a nearby mosque, worshipping in the Sunni way in this Sunni land, and poring over the Koran.†   (source)
  • If the Koran can be read differently today because of changing attitudes toward slaves, then why not emancipate women as well?†   (source)
  • In the Holy Koran there is no law to prohibit an infidel from providing assistance to our Muslim brothers and sisters.†   (source)
  • Amina Wadud, an Islamic scholar in the United States, has written a systematic reinterpretation of chauvinist provisions in the Koran.†   (source)
  • Muslims sometimes note that such conservative attitudes have little to do with the Koran and arise from culture more than religion.†   (source)
  • In the Koran, the story appears in much the same manner as the covenant of Abraham and Isaac does in the Torah and the Bible.†   (source)
  • The feminist exegesis argues if the Koran originally was progressive, then it should not be allowed to become an apologia for backwardness.†   (source)
  • Mortenson thought of Haji Ali, likewise illiterate in Arabic, but tenderly turning the pages of his Koran just the same, and smiled, warming himself over this ember of feeling.†   (source)
  • Moderate passages from the Koran are taught, so that women can direct their husbands to passages that call for respect for women.†   (source)
  • Haji Ali ran his fingers along the text of the Koran that he cherished above all his belongings, turning pages randomly and mouthing almost silent Arabic prayer as he stared out into inward space.†   (source)
  • The Arabic language was born as a written language only with the Koran, and so many of its words are puzzling.†   (source)
  • Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.†   (source)
  • The students spent their days studying "the Koran, the sayings of the Prophet Mohammed and the basics of Islamic law as interpreted by their barely literate teachers," he writes.†   (source)
  • The Koran explicitly endorses some gender discrimination: A woman's testimony counts only half as much as a man's, and a daughter inherits only half as much as a son.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until the afternoon of the third day that an older man, whom Mortenson took to be the village mullah, arrived holding a dusty Koran, covered in green velvet.†   (source)
  • It has been much harder for pious Muslims to ignore unpleasant and antiquated passages in the Koran, because it is believed to be not just divinely inspired but literally the word of God.†   (source)
  • Scholars are beginning to examine early copies of the Koran with academic rigor, and some argue that a number of these puzzling words may actually have been Syriac or Aramaic.†   (source)
  • "Dear Compassionate of the Poor," he translated from the elegant Farsi calligraphy, "our Holy Koran tells us all children should receive education, including our daughters and sisters.†   (source)
  • Mahtob and I would be scheduled to be at school in the morning and Koran study class in the afternoon.†   (source)
  • Islam improved the position of slaves compared to their status in pre-Islamic societies, and the Koran encourages the freeing of slaves as a meritorious act.†   (source)
  • Frontier Corps guards stood aside as thousands of bearded boys who wore turbans and lined their eyes with dark surma poured over the pass in hundreds of double-cab pickups, carrying Kalashnikovs and Korans.†   (source)
  • If she was staying in Tehran only temporarily one month she had said why was she enrolled in Koran study classes here.†   (source)
  • That would be plausible, because the Koran compares the houri to pearls and crystal, and because accounts of Heaven from the time of the Koran often included bounteous fruit, especially grapes to refresh the weary.†   (source)
  • 20 a month, he worked at the city's Military Hospital Library, guarding three locked cases of musty hardcovers that somehow had survived the time of the Taliban, who were in the habit of burning any book but the Koran.†   (source)
  • "Moody swore on the Koran that he would not attempt to keep me here against my will," I said, wondering how much Baba Hajji heard and understood.†   (source)
  • Anyone who has a wish that you want to come true, you go and pay money to the woman who reads the Koran and she will pray for you.†   (source)
  • I had no desire to study the Koran, but the notion of meeting regularly with a group of women who spoke English was exciting.†   (source)
  • On infrequent occasions Baba Hajji poked his face into the room, but he spent most of his time in prayer and Koran-reading.†   (source)
  • Her office was far away from Mammal's apartment, far from Mahtob's school, or even from the Thursday Koran study classes at the masjed.†   (source)
  • He read from the Koran: And mention in the scripture Mary, when she isolated herself in an eastern chamber.†   (source)
  • She was pleased with the live-in maid service, for it freed her time not only for study but for additional hours of prayer and Koran reading.†   (source)
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