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Definition of ALCORAN

Alcoran
Koran Ko"ran (?; 277), n. [Ar. gor[=a]n. See Alcoran.] The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran. [Written also Kuran or Quran.]
Alcoran
Alcoran Al"co*ran (?; 277), n. [alcoran, fr. Ar. al-qor[=a]n, orig. the reading, the book, fr. qaraa to read. Cf. Koran.] The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). [Spelt also Alkoran.]

Meaning of ALCORAN from wikipedia

- [alqurˈʔaːn], lit. 'the recitation' or 'the lecture' (English spelling) The form Alcoran (and its variants) was usual before the 19th century when it became obsolete...
- Sale published a translation of the Quran, The Koran: Commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed, dedicated to John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville. Relying heavily...
- the Alcoran. With a Needful Caveat, or Admonition, for them who desire to know what Use may be made of, or if there be danger in Reading the ALCORAN." L'Alcoran...
- in Latin, a re****ation of the Quran titled Prodromus Ad Re****ationem Alcoran. Marracci's Islamic texts included Ibn Abī Zamanīn, Al-Tha'alibi, Zamakhsharī...
- 20th and 21st centuries. The earliest known English translation is The Alcoran (1649) which is attributed to Alexander Ross, chaplain to King Charles...
- Conscience (1646) Mystagogus Poeticus, or the Muses' Interpreter (1647) The Alcoran of ****met: Translated out of Arabique into French by the Sieur Du Ryer...
- Machumetis Saracenorum principis eiusque successorum vitae ac doctrina ipseque Alcoran, Johannes Oporin, Basel, 1543, 1550. (Qur'an: on-line text with critical...
- years earlier in 1691, in Latin, titled the Prodromus Ad Re****ationem Alcoran. Marracci published his Quran edition only four years after the publication...
- of Alabama; a copy of the Quran known as The Koran: Commonly Called The Alcoran was saved by one of the university's staff. Estimates ranging from a dozen...
- copy of George Sale's 1734 translation of the Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed (London: Hawes, Clarke, Collins and Wilcox, 1764). The two-volume...