Word: korans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...world was discovered. Is my astronomy correct? Look to the Bible. And yet, the Bible was written before the invention of the telescope. Is my geology correct? Is my biology correct? Look to the Bible. . . . If perchance the majority somewhere should not be a Christian majority, the Koran or the Book of Mormon or any other might equally well be set up as a standard of truth, knowledge and scientific learning...