Word: koranic
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...Sheik Nassib Makaram, was famed from Damascus to Cairo, was called the calligrapher without peer. The letters he could form with his sharp-pointed stylus were illegible without glasses. He would, on this grain of white rice, write al-fatiha (the Opening), the first sura (chapter) of the Koran.* Too he would write the great speech of Abu Bekr, the first caliph. The words he would write would make 150. This he would do, and did, for the glory of God and the wonder of men. Last week in Cairo, one Nureddon Bey Mustafa, looked long at the grain...
They declared that he is an inveterate smoker. When he cannot get his 100 cigarets a day, because of the blockade, he puffs for hours at a gold nargileh filled with rose water and engraved with an inscription from the Koran: "Take but little; it is best...
...Religion, which once dominated Turkish courts, is now not even permitted to enter' the courts. The Code Napoleon has completely supplanted the Koran and religious tradition as the law of the land...
...Koran, hitherto safe behind a dark shield of impenetrable Arabic, has been officially circulated in Turkish to defend itself, naked, before common sense...
Mustapha Kemal Pasha, President of the Turkish Republic, announced last week that these fragments of admittedly highly advanced European legislation are to be assembled into a Turkish Code, which will supplant the wildly jumbled legal system, based upon interpretations of the Koran, with which the Turks have been immemorially content...