"Quran" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... New Testaments; and when that series is finished it will, I believe, be admitted that nowhere would these two books have had a grander setting, or have shone with a brighter light, than surrounded by the Veda, the Zendavesta, the Buddhist Tripitaka, and the Quran. ...
— Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. • F. Max Mueller
... the Koran, and quran uthara to take an oath. In English Gipsy kurran, or kurraben, is also an oath, and it seems strange that such a word from such a source should exist in England. It is, however, more interesting as indicating that the Gipsies did not leave ...
— The English Gipsies and Their Language • Charles G. Leland |
