All 16 Uses
Quran
in
The Kite Runner
(Edited)
- People had raised their eyebrows when Ali, a man who had memorized the Koran, married Sanaubar, a woman nineteen years younger, a beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous woman who lived up to her dishonorable reputation.
p. 7.9Koran = sacred writings of Islam
- He lectured us about the virtues of zakat and the duty of hadj; he taught us the intricacies of performing the five daily namaz prayers, and made us memorize verses from the Koran—and though he never translated the words for us, he did stress, sometimes with the help of a stripped willow branch, that we had to pronounce the Arabic words correctly so God would hear us better.
p. 15.9
- But when a Koran ayat I had learned in my diniyat class rose to my lips, I muttered it.
p. 62.8
- Summer meant long school days sweating in tightly packed, poorly ventilated classrooms learning to recite ayats from the Koran, struggling with those tongue-twisting, exotic Arabic words.
p. 108.2
- So weddings had come and gone and no one had sung ahesta boro for Soraya, no one had painted her palms with henna, no one had held a Koran over her headdress, and it had been General Taheri who'd danced with her at every wedding.
p. 148.8
- Bowing my head to the ground, I recited half-forgotten verses from the Koran—
p. 154.7 *
- The mullah questioned the witnesses and read from the Koran.
p. 170.4
- One of Soraya's cousins, Sharif jan's son, held a Koran over our heads as we inched along.
p. 170.8
- A mullah chanted surrahs from the Koran into a microphone.
p. 174.1
- As words from the Koran reverberated through the room, I thought of the old story of Baba wrestling a black bear in Baluchistan.
p. 174.3
- The mullah and another man got into an argument over which was the correct ayat of the Koran to recite at the gravesite.
p. 175.1
- Now the last of the mourners had paid their respects and the mosque was empty, save for the mullah unplugging the microphone and wrapping his Koran in green cloth.
p. 175.4
- Soraya kissed the carefully wrapped manuscript and Khala Jamila insisted we pass it under the Koran.
p. 182.9
- Hassan stood in the threshold of the house and held the Koran as we all kissed it and passed under it.
p. 208.1
- He recited a lengthy prayer from the Koran, his nasal voice undulating through the sudden hush of the stadium's crowd.
p. 270.1
- His son had held the Koran over our heads as Soraya and I had walked toward the stage, smiling at the flashing cameras.
p. 334.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(Quran) Islam: the sacred writings of Islam said to be revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)