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Word: koranic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years Mohammed, with a handful of followers, struggled vainly in Mecca to convince the town leaders that there was no God but Allah. During these years he began to produce the Koran, which he said was not written by him but by God, and transmitted to him by the Angel Gabriel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: THE MOSLEM WORLD | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...20th Century unbelievers the Koran seems a most uneven book; ethical and religious ideas of a high order sparkle amid dreary ruminations of a desert Dorothy Dix. Yet among Mo hammed's contemporaries (and among Arabs today) the style of the Koran was considered superb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: THE MOSLEM WORLD | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...even to govern the people they conquered. They applied the Aylah treatment: tribute and religious freedom. In some periods, the tribute from unbelievers poured in so fast that the Caliphs were not interested a conversion. The religious leaders of Islam formed a body called the Ulema, learned in the Koran and the Sharia [law]. They tended to be manuscript-eaters, verbal hair-splitters, not a type useful in missionary work. So far as the official religious leadership was concerned, the victories of Islam might have added up to no more than an ephemeral Arab conquest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: THE MOSLEM WORLD | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Three days later in Amman, its dusty capital, Jordan buried Abdullah. In his simple palace, men chanted verses from the Koran. As Abdullah's coffin was carried out to a waiting caisson, crowds of women wailed "Sayedna" (Our Master), tore their clothes and beat their bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: King & Killer | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...Good for You"*-plastered on Dublin's buses. The ads, said Guinness & Co., were not for Irish eyes, but for the benefit of tourists. "After all," explained Managing Director Sir Hugh Beaver, "if you went to Mecca, you'd expect to see some quotations from the Koran." But the ads baffled Dubliners. Said one: "Next, somebody will be telling us we should eat spuds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEVERAGES: Bitter Brew | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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