(n.) The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jakarta governor election a 'litmus test' of Indonesian Islam Read more Stakes in the vote have been raised by allegations that Ahok – the city’s first non-Muslim governor for half a century and its first ethnic Chinese leader – insulted the Koran.
(2) The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind; and whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A child who was wounded during a reported Saudi-led coalition air strike on a Koranic school.
(4) No text of the Koran explicitly prohibits birth limitation, and a contraceptive method, coitus interruptus, is even mentioned.
(5) The flagpole inside the compound was apparently shortened and the Taliban flag – dark Koranic script on a white background – was still flying but not visible from the street.
(6) He could recognize Arabic music and instruments but not words of songs; a radio broadcast from the Koran, but not the individual words; a male as opposed to female voice; Arabic and non-Arabic languages; and whether sentences were questions, exclamations, or imperatives.
(7) A more realistic and achievable approach lies in ensuring imans preach a more modern and moderate interpretation of the Koran,” she wrote.
(8) Tamazai is locally-described as "an illness of the heart and soul, not curable by Koranic verses," but by exorcism of spirits.
(9) It's true of Hitchens' various grotesque invocations of Islam to justify violence, including advocating cluster bombs because "if they're bearing a Koran over their heart, it'll go straight through that, too".
(10) Korane said Kenya was working to mobilise international support to improve security and build up social infrastructure such as houses, schools and hospitals, in order to make potential areas of return more viable.
(11) Some of that is real, and some is Kabuki: Groups of fighters have realized that the best way to get weapons is to grow beards, quote from the Koran and troll for support in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
(12) Karzai told MPs that a US soldier had acted "out of ignorance and with poor understanding" of the Koran's importance as Islam's holy book, a presidential statement said.
(13) A practising Christian who had always had 'problems' with the Bible's portrayal of women from Eve onwards as dangerous seductresses, she loved the Koran for its sense of 'justice and equality' and, after living without alcohol and 'casual relationships' for a year - 'I wanted to see if I could do it; no point deciding to become a Muslim, then falling off a bar stool shouting, "more champagne!"'
(14) But Mr Blair's conciliatory and idealistic tone was not extended to the enemy of the moment, whose version of Islam was "no more obedient to the proper teachings of the Koran" than the crusaders of the Middle Ages had exemplified the gospel message, he said.
(15) Rose said the exercise had been inspired by a conversation with Danish comedian Frank Hvam, who said he did not dare make fun of the Koran.
(16) The taped material was "deeply offensive" and the claim that it was taken from the Koran was untrue, Mr Clarke said, adding: "The Muslim community are appalled by the things he was saying.
(17) But there's a distinction to be made between "going after Islam" – ie criticising the Koran and the Islamic prophet, Muhammad – and going after Muslims.
(18) Black servicemen were frequently sentenced to longer terms than their white counterparts and, once inside a military prison, black Muslim inmates were refused copies of the Koran.
(19) A form of Koranic medicine known as Kombe, which included the use of Quranic inscriptions, was used widely.
(20) She had promised her captors that she would read the Koran once she got back home, and so she did - and its effect on her was profound.
Talmud
Definition:
(n.) The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diseases of the gums and pains originating from the teeth were cited from the Talmud.
(2) Otherwise, I won’t achieve my goal.” To Ronen, he explained that the Talmudic doctrine din rodef amounted to a death sentence for Rabin – an explication that only people familiar with the internal discourse in the Orthodox community over the preceding year would have understood.
(3) In this connection, there is no incongruity perceived between the existence of the evil eye, devils and spirits possessing a person and the teachings of the Talmud.
(4) References were brought from the Bible and Talmud which prove that distinctions--morphological and functional--were recognized between incisors, canines, and molars.
(5) While Donald Trump hosts Saturday Night Live and Ben Carson’s autobiography is parsed with Talmudic scrutiny, Paul, suffering from anemic poll numbers, only just escaped being bounced from Tuesday’s primetime Republican debate in Milwaukee.
(6) Talmudic tradition emphasizes the necessity to acquire means for reestablishing the intactness of a healthy family.
(7) It is no more justifiable than saying that the only future which religious Jews - as Jews - can envision is one in which non-Jews live in complete slavery and subjugation: a claim often made by anti-semites based on highly selective passages from the Talmud .
(8) The first reported episode of rapid whitening of the hair is recorded in the Talmud.
(9) The Talmud tells us: "The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace."
(10) The concept of the delinquent adolescent is reviewed in terms of definition, culpability, and rehabilitation in concert with psychiatric and Talmudic perspectives.
(11) The Biblical verse "If a woman emits semen and bears a manchild" (Leviticus 12:2) is interpreted by the Talmudic Sages and more recent Jewish sources to mean that if a woman emits her "semen" first, she will bear a male child but if the man emits his semen first, she will bear a female child.
(12) In spite of their spatial and temporal dispersion, the talmudic literature and its commentaries proceed from a fundamental unity.
(13) The Talmudic concept has evolved that the delinquent child is a product of a disturbed family and a pathological environment.
(14) Jews were able to bridge the educational gap of a 500-year period of exclusion from universities and medical schools in the Middle Ages through the Talmud, which started as a commentary on the scriptures in the 5th century BC, but developed over the centuries into a comprehensive body of learning incorporating law, art and the sciences.
(15) In the Talmud, there is a detailed symptomatic evaluation of insanity, in the context of legal liability.
(16) In this article, I deal with the multiple references to the liver and liver disease that are found in the books of the Talmud.
(17) According to several local newspapers, Youssef then described the men as "enemies of the nation" who used mosques to promote "the commandments of their holy book, the Talmud ".
(18) Described in the Talmud are a variety of anatomical ear abnormalities such as double ear, pierced ears, small ears, cut off ears, and pendulous ears.
(19) Contrasting with Malick's new agey, Romantic reverie was the old age study of the holy word contained in Joseph Cedar's Talmud tragicomedy Footnote , probably my favourite film of the festival.
(20) At one meeting it discussed the regulatory position of a registered school, the Talmud Torah Chaim Meirim Wiznitz school in Hackney, which had been the subject of a critical report by Ofsted.