Word: koranic
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...work of a mere law but is the culmination of a struggle started some fifty years ago under the old Ottoman Empire. The whole social order is completely changed." Asked how this new order is reconciled with the Mohammedan religion, M. Moukbil replied that it is provided in the Koran that the religion should change with the times...
...Koran. The Koran (Qur'an) is the cosmic reproduction of an uncreated original preserved by Allah (God). The Book of Allah, as the original is known, was sent, according to Mohammed's teachings, by God from the seventh Heaven down to Gabriel in the first Heaven; and parts of it were on various occasions revealed to the Prophet who, in many cases, wrote down the revelations. After the death of Mohammed, the writings were collected and were called the Koran...
...Koran is then the supreme authority of Islam. Under it are many others. Mohammed said there would be 73 Moslem sects, but that only one would survive. This is authority enough for the existence of 73 sects, although the nuances which differentiate some of them are delicate in the extreme. For the purpose of clarifying the background to events which are even now taking place in Arabia, attention will be drawn to onethe Wahabite. The Wahabis are a cross between the Hanbalite and Zahirite sects or, in western parlance, the Puritans of the Church of Islam. They cling tenaciously...
...personal interpretation of the Koran and traditions (of the Prophet...
Thus the victory of Emir Ibn Saud, who knows the Koran by heart, is virtually a Puritan Revolution...