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- noun Plural form of
sura .
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According to Wilders, it would be shown on a split screen, with verses and suras from the Koran on one side and examples of Sharia law being carried out on the other, including a beheading and a stoning.
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It was not the whole Quran, just the thirty shortest chapters, which are known as suras.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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It was not the whole Quran, just the thirty shortest chapters, which are known as suras.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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It was not the whole Quran, just the thirty shortest chapters, which are known as suras.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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Last year the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill required all of its incoming freshmen and transfer students to read and then discuss Approaching the Qu'ran, a new translation of a handful of suras from the Muslim holy book.
IsThatLegal? 2003
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The book's organizing principle is neither chronological nor thematic — for the most part the suras are arranged from beginning to end in descending order of length.
What Is the Koran? 1999
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The book's organizing principle is neither chronological nor thematic — for the most part the suras are arranged from beginning to end in descending order of length.
What Is the Koran? 1999
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The Quran consists of 114 'suras' (chapters) with the total of 6236 ayat (verses).
The Economic Times 2009
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Fitna also depicted muslims who talked about these Koranic suras.
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As I sipped black coffee and read suras (verses) that seemed oddly obsessed with Jews, I felt this powerful disconnect between what I was feeling internally -- Why must Islam care so much about us?
Stuart Dow: Salhad Din: My Experience As Other Stuart Dow 2010
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