Show Turks Shaken in in Their Veneration for Koran Arabic being a sacred language the ecclesiastics have cried out against their holy book the Koran appearing In any other tongue But the Turkish government has In spite of ot this allowed the publication of ot three separate translations s Fourteen Fourteen Four Four- teen thousand copies have been sold Turks who formerly heard the sounding Arabic Arable of ot the Koran without without with with- out understanding anything of or Its meaning Imagined It charged with tremendous and m mystic meanings That Impression melts away when the Koran Is read In the vernacular It Is sometimes enough h to place a Koran and a n Testament in the hands of ot a n Tur Turkish reader and leave him to draw his own conclusions It Is said that Kemal Pasha in disgust threw the book across the room Into a corner corder corner Yet In the Sudan the primary primary primary mary textbook In all the government schools Is the Koran and Islam Is gaining ground constantly In the Egyptian Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Sunday School Times |