Word: korans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Literally "Successor", (usually) of Mohammed. In the Koran the term is applied to Adam, as "viceregent...
Moreover, Sheik Razek does not believe the Koran to be infallible. Even if the Koran be accepted as a code for personal conduct, it is not, says the Sheik, an adequate guide to modern statecraft. He considers that the Califate* has become corrupt, incompetent-essen tial cause of the backwardness of Islam...
...uncommon achievement for a modern Turkish woman. Moreover, she profoundly believed in the enlightenment of her sex in Turkey. Her object was to bring Turkish women to the social and cultural level of Western women and, en route, to destroy traditions (many of which were not sanctioned by the Koran) which had for centuries bound women to men as slaves. Moreover, she was an heiress...
...Genesis, written when everybody thought the world was flat . . . religious ignorance and bigotry as any that justified the Spanish Inquisition or the hanging of witches in New England. . . . The State of Tennessee has no more right to teach the Bible as the Divine Book than it has the Koran, the Book of Mormon, the Book of Confucius, the Buddha or the Essays of Emerson. . . . Who is the Chief Mogul that can tell us what the Bible means ? . . . Nothing was ever heard of all that [Christian divisions] until the Fundamentalists got into Tennessee. . . . Here is one thing I cannot account...
...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...