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…supreme self-control, it is better that he should not learn to play Chess. I have never allowed my children to learn it, for I have seen too much of it’s evil results.” The Koran specifically puts down Chess and its “graven images”. In 1912, the Archbishop…

…for their brilliance, from their friends and family “‘Light’ is a word that symbolizes knowledge, knowing, wisdom, within the Koran and the Holy Bible.” The hope this book ends with represents Smith’s belief in change. These two hopeful voices complete the book…

…inscription in the stone, stucco, marble, mosaic, and painting to record the word of God. Koran, Islam's primary sacred text, is a useful source of this (Brodd 255). Sometimes single words like Allah or Mohammed are repeated over the entire surface of the walls…

…;The Buddhist Centre of Cambodia¡¨. ,,R 1930: Nominated vice-director of Phnom Penh Pali School. He was, in the same year, nominated Buddhist Koran assistant-member of Buddhist Centre, Phnom Penh. ,,R 1932: Nominated member of vocabulary…

…a group of scholars the ulema interpreted law as they saw fit from the Koran. There interpretations became a rich body of law called the shari'a. Which covered social, criminal, political, commercial, and ritualistic matters. Judicial matters were run by Qadis…

…believe that Muhammad was a prophet and he is said to have beenvisited at night by the angel Gabriel. The angel is said to have told Muhammad what to write in what was called a Quran (Koran.) Gabriel came to Muhammad for many years and every night he wrote…

…of the Koran.......My father took me to that of old Shemsi Effendi who directed a preparatory school according to European Methods." This military school also instigated hatred of other 'ethnic races' and it was here where Ataturk begun visualising a new…

…initiatives and sought to revive the bourgeoisie. The Intelligentsia. Wherever Islam has spread, it has created an intelligentsia of Koranic scholars, teachers, judges, and ministers. Such a class came into being in Egypt and continues today. The most…

…, and judicial functions, in addition to housing Muhammad's family. The religious functions were mixed with other functions. Rules on prayers seem to have not been shaped at the first period, much because this was the period in which the Koran was revealed to Muhammad…

…sentence to the purported practice of flushing a Koran down the toilet as a method of psychologically traumatizing the religiously devout detainees into eventually revealing information. At any other time in human history, such a minor blurb in an American…