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Selections from the Koran
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An excellent introduction to one of the world’s great holy books.
Selected in 1932 by the Sirdar, these extracts were chosen “…almost entirely by considerations of modern utility… I have tried to confine it to excerpts which seemed to me to supply guidance on the problems of modern life.” — Selections from the Koran by Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah: Octagon Press, London, p. vii. Copyright © 1980 by Idries Shah. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Categories: LES IDÉES QUI ONT FAÇONNÉ LE MONDE D’AUJOURD’HUI, Origins of IslamSirdar Ali Shah’s introduction gives a fascinating glimpse into the Arab world at the time of The Prophet and of the way in which the Koran was written and its accuracy preserved to the present.
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