Alkoran

It may not be amiss to observe, that the syllable Al in the word Alkoran is only the Arabic article, signifying the, and therefore ought to be omitted when the English article is prefixed.

The Koran (Al-Qur'an) George Sale 1716

And he saith in his book, that is called Alkoran, that when Christ was a child he made birds of the slime of the earth.

The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

“Good lack, Mr. Pott, that is your never-failing answer,” said Lady Penelope; “I believe if I were to ask you for the last new edition of the Alkoran, you would tell me it was coming down in your next monthly parcel.”

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Do not here produce ancient examples of the paragons of paillardice, and offer to match with my testiculatory ability the Priapaean prowess of the fabulous fornicators, Hercules, Proculus Caesar, and Mahomet, who in his Alkoran doth vaunt that in his cods he had the vigour of three score bully ruffians; but let no zealous Christian trust the rogue, — the filthy ribald rascal is a liar.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Do not here produce ancient examples of the paragons of paillardice, and offer to match with my testiculatory ability the Priapaean prowess of the fabulous fornicators, Hercules, Proculus Caesar, and Mahomet, who in his Alkoran doth vaunt that in his cods he had the vigour of three score bully ruffians; but let no zealous Christian trust the rogue, — the filthy ribald rascal is a liar.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Indeed, it leaves us little (if any at all) more certainty for our religion than the Turks have for theirs; for why may not they as well require us to believe, that God speaks to us in the Alkoran, because they say he doth, as the Papists require us to believe he speaks to us in the

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

Ah, Lord, if the glory and pomp of the world might prevail with thee to send thy gospel, it would supply the room of the cursed Alkoran, and spread itself in the palaces of that strong lion of the east who sets his throne upon the necks of kings; but, alas!

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

Peter and Paul are therefore of divine authority, because it so seemed good to the church to determine, -- why might not the same church, if she had been so pleased, have added the Talmud to the Scripture, ay, and the Alkoran too?

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

It is the most fond and wicked imagination of the Socinians, invented to countenance their disbelief and hatred of his divine person, that during the time of his flesh he was taken up into heaven, and there taught the doctrine of the Gospel, as Mohammed feigned concerning himself and his Alkoran.

Christologia 1616-1683 1965

That doctrine is as discrepant from the Gospel as the Alkoran — as contrary to the experience of believers as what is acted in and by the devils which instructs men unto

Christologia 1616-1683 1965