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Reading from the Koran. Professor Toy. Sever...
Professor Toy will continue his readings from the Koran this afternoon at four o'clock in Sever 11. The readings today will be in main from the suras delivered by the prophet while at Medina. the suras of this period form in many respects the most interesting portion of the Koran. The prophet had become firmly established in power, and his utterances are of a more mature character thad those of the Mecca period. The lecture will doubtless be a very interesting...
Yesterday afternoon in Sever 11, Professor Toy gave the first of a series of "Readings from the Koran." He spoke first of the history of the book...
...said that the Koran, which today furnishes spiritual food for two hundred million people, is unique in that it is the work of one man. All other religious books of the same character the work of a long period of years and one of many men working under widely different circumstance. On this account the Koran possesses a greater degree of unity than any of the other gospels. The book consists of one hundred and fourteen divisions or suras. These are arranged arbitrarily, in the order of their length. The suras appeared at different times, as occasion demanded. They were...
Reading from the Koran. Professor Toy. Sever...