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Definition of Koran
1. Noun. The sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina.
Generic synonyms: Religious Text, Religious Writing, Sacred Text, Sacred Writing
Terms within: Sura
Derivative terms: Koranic
Definition of Koran
1. n. The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.
Definition of Koran
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of Qur'an) ¹
2. Proper noun. (alternative spelling of Qur'an the Qur'an) ¹
3. Noun. (alternative spelling of Qur'an) (The Islamic holy book/bible) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Koran
Literary usage of Koran
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms; a by Charles Buck (1838)
"The koran is divided into uno hundred and fourteen larger portions of very unequal
lentil, which we call chapters, but the Arabians ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"91) the word koran is made to cover the whole body of revealed books, including
the Old and ... The koran is perhaps the most widely read book in the world. ..."
3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1911)
"[A series of exegetic comments on passages of the koran.] Constantinople, 1844.
vi ... [A treatise on the abrogating and abrogated verses of the koran. ..."
4. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1897)
"Nay, we verily believe that a great deal of such Christianity as has found its
way into the koran has found it through Jewish ..."
5. The Cambridge Medieval History by John Bagnell Bury, James Pounder Whitney (1913)
"Hence those parts of the koran which were produced after the Emigration — amounting
to rather more than one-third of the whole book — consist largely of ..."
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