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About midnight I heard a voice like that of a man reading the alcoran, after the same manner, and in the same tone, as we used to read it in our mosques.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

It was preceded by an effendi, mounted on a camel, richly furnished, reading aloud the alcoran, finely bound, laid upon a cushion.

From Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady

When she had finished and prepared the circle as she thought fit, she placed herself in the centre of it, where she began adjurations, and repeated verses out of the alcoran.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

The child had a ready wit, a genius capable of receiving all the instructions that could be given, and, after having been two years under the tuition of his master, learned the alcoran by heart.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

At those words he shut the alcoran, put it into a rich case, and laid it in the niche.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous