Word: korans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illuminated Persian manuscript of the Koran, an illuminated edition, of Francis Bacon's "On Garden's", by Sangerski, and the Japanese artist Hokusal's "Instruction for Begginners" form the last part of the collection...
Because eleven Hindu women returning from a religious ceremony made music before the door of a Mohammedan mosque in Indore, some 2,000 Mohammedans avenged this infraction of the Koran last week by rioting, killing five of the Hindu women, and stubbornly resisting for some time a cavalry troop sent to quell them by the Maharaja of Indore...
...Swiss-type Civil Code is supplemented by a new German-type Commercial Code; and a Penal Code based on that of Italy has been promulgated. The immense and revolutionary project of scrapping outworn Turkish law (based on the Koran) and substituting Western statutes thus stands today, accomplished...
Cairo, Egypt, has its fundamentalists. Dr. Taha Hussein., blind poet, went on trial there last week, charged with traducing in poetry the infallibility of the Koran. There are statements in the latter "which must not be accepted as historically accurate," he ventured to say. The Moslem University of El-Azhar, outraged at the charge, supports the prosecution. One lawyer defending the poet has been ostracized by his family...
...Glistening from a verdant cloth at one end was the golden star and crescent of Islam. As his bier rested on the three burned-out Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors of the demolished plane, Mullah Hussan, a Mohammedan priest, read with tears in his eyes the funeral service from the Koran in a voice like "that of a man speaking while trying to stifle a sob." After the service, again the bearers raised the coffin, marched the forty steps required under the Mohammedan ritual to a waiting hearse...