However, Thomas Kane writes that after Lij Haile Maryam Mammo's victory at Morit on 21 April 1937, Abebe and Fitawrari Zawdu Abba Koran took control of Morat and Geru, then on 25 July the three joined with Blatta Tekle Walde-Hawaryat and Major Masfon Selassie for an attack on Addis Alem ; however they encountered the enemy far to east of their intended target, and increasing enemy forces and aerial bombardments forced them to withdraw to Menz 1 September.

A subsequent June 4, 2005 report by the Pentagon, however, confirmed multiple instances of desecration of the Koran at Guantanamo, including one incident in which urine was splashed on Koran.

" There are dissenting voices, however, who say that the word used in the Koran itself is khamr-which means " fermented grape "-and that this classification doesn't cover use of marijuana.

Indeed, mail armour is mentioned in the Koran as being a gift revealed by Allah to David:

He accused Machiavelli of being an atheist and accused politicians of his time by saying that his works were the " Koran of the courtiers ", that " he is of no reputation in the court of France which hath not Machiavel's writings at the fingers ends ".

* Page from Koran ( Surah II: 286 and title Surah III ) in kufic script, from Syria, is made.

The Quran ( ;,, literally meaning " the recitation "), also transliterated Qur ' an, Koran, Al-Coran, Coran, Kuran, and Al-Qur ' an, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be the verbatim word of God (, Allah ).

In spite of his regard for the Koran, he concluded, " To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab.

* A More4 news film report on how insulting the prophet Mohammed in Pakistan is a capital offence, and defiling the Koran carries life imprisonment.

Hanbal believed that the Qur ' an is uncreated because the Koran is the word of God and the word of God is not created, and thus the Koran is God's word or speech and His revelation.

The Mu ' taziltes and the Jahmites believe that the Koran, which is readable and touchable, is created like other created creatures and beings.

Ibn Hanbal maintained that the Koran is indeed a thing, but that it is not created like other created things.

Hence Hanbal asserted that the Koran is uncreated.

This Christian story is recounted by Islam and appears in a famous Sura of the Koran, Sura Al-Kahf.

AJ Arberry's The Koran Interpreted remains the scholarly standard for English translations, and is widely used by academics.

It is claimed that Yusuf Ma Dexin ( 1794 – 1874 ) is the first translator of the Koran into Chinese.

Otunbayeva stated: “ The holy Koran appeals to people, living during difficult tests, to general tolerance and forgiveness of the past offences of each other.

He argues that evildoers will be punished in hell for an appropriate period then cease to exist, so their suffering ( which is graphically described in the Koran and therefore must happen ) will not be eternal, but only a just amount.

In Michael Strogoff ( 1876 ) by Jules Verne, Feofar Khan judged Michael Strogoff to blindness after pointing randomly in the Koran at the phrase: " And he will no more see the things of this earth.

According to Islam, the earliest mention of the name of God is found in the Koran sura 2, The Cow: " When your Lord said to the angels: ' I am placing on the earth one that shall rule as My deputy ,' they replied: ' Will You put there one that will do evil and shed blood, when we have for so long sung Your praises and sanctified Your Name?

Uncle Ali and Abdul, who is even more conservative and orthodox Ali will become enemies of love of Jade and Lucas, for as dictated by their culture, will not allow an outsider from breaking the rules of the Koran, and so arranged the marriage of his two nieces with Said and Mohamed, Abdul's nephews.

After opening the Koran at random, Feofar decides that Michael will be blinded as punishment in the Tartar fashion, with a hot blade.

Upon triggering, the Internet Explorer window will be minimized and a window will take its place, with a quote from the Koran translated into several languages.

On 25 May 2009, the Constitutional Court, made up of appointed judges, released a ruling that any referendum to create a new constitution would be unconstitutional, and further would be a violation of the oath the president had taken on the Koran ( a serious matter in this overwhelmingly Muslim country ).

Depending on the level of acceptance of rejection of certain traditions, the interpretation of the Koran can be changed immensely, from the Qur ' anists and Ahmadiyya who reject the ahadith, to the Salafi, or ahl al-hadith, who hold the entirety of the traditional collections in great reverence.

Chinul, a 12th-century Koran Seon master, emphasized that insight into our true nature is sudden, but is to be followed by practice to ripen the insight and attain full Buddhahood.

Chinul, a 12th-century Koran Seon master, emphasized that insight into our true nature is sudden, but is to be followed by practice to ripen the insight and attain full Buddhahood.

Following the Muslim South Asian tradition, his family directed him to study Islamic studies at the local Mosque to be oriented to the basics of religious studies by Maulvi Ibrahim Mir, a tradition was that of Muslim orthodoxy where he memorized Koran and learned Arabic, Persian, Urdu language and the Quran.

They discouraged creativity to keep the populace from information that might be disseminated through books other than the Koran.

The Ambassador Tripoli answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman ( muslims ) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.

The plan provided among other things that " all suits regarding the inheritance, marriage, caste and other religious usages, or institutions, the laws of the Koran with respect to Mohametans and those of the Shaster with respect to Gentoos shall be invariably adhered to.

Hadd crimes are considered to be " claims against God ", and they are punishable by a mandatory, fixed sentence that was laid down in the Koran and Hadith.

This text came to be known as the Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple of America ( which is not to be confused with the Quran ).

* The Nativity of Jesus, Blesséd be He, in the Koran, Part 2-George Sale-translation 1734.

Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.

In 1897 the purchase of a 15th-century Koran, originally thought to be Persian, but now regarded as Indian, may have initiated the manuscript collection.

The debate has been reactivated recently, arguing that the spirit of the Koran and the letter of a disputed hadith indicate that women should be able to lead mixed congregations as well as single-sex ones, and that the prohibition of this developed as a result of sexism in the medieval environment and patriarchal interpretations of religious texts, not part of or reflective of true Islam.

Verses from the Koran, the writer said, should be engraved and set up in Mohenjo-Daro in " appropriate places ": " Say ( unto them, O Mohammed ): Travel in the land and see the nature of the sequel for the guilty ... Say ( O Mohammed, to the disbelievers ): Travel in the land and see the nature of the consequence for those who were before you.

Prior to Indian Independence in 1947, Hindu law formed part of the British colonial legal system and was formally established as such in 1722 by Governor-General Warren Hastings who declared in his Plan for the Administration of Justice that " in all suits regarding inheritance, marriage, caste and other religious usages or institutions, the laws of the Koran with respect to the Mohamedans and those of the Shaster with respect to the Gentoos shall invariably be adhered to.

It is considered to be sacred, as, in the Muslim view, it is the language by which Allah revealed the final revealed book, the Koran, to Muhammad, Prophet of Islam, through the angel Jibril.

On Friday 10 September 2010, a South African Muslim law student named Mohammed Vawda attempted to organise a public Bible burning at a park in central Johannesburg in response to plans by Florida pastor Terry Jones ' " International Burn a Koran Day ".

They were named Mecca Study Circle No. I ( NYC ), Koran Study Circle, Capital Study Circle No. 4, etc.