Show turks shaken in their veneration for noran koran arabic belliz a n sacred language tile the have cried out against their holy book the koran appearing op in any other tongue nut mit tle the turkish 1 sh government has in spite of this a allowed I 1 the publication of three separate be pa translations fourteen thousand d copies have beet beci sold turks who formerly heard the sounding arabic of the koran without understanding anything of its meaning imagined it charged with tremendous and mystic meanings that impression melts away when the koran Is read in ili the vernacular orna ierna cular it Is sometimes enough to place a koran and a testament in the hands of a turkish render 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 yet in the sudan the primary textbook in all the government schools Is the koran and islam Is gaining ground coustant constantly ly in the ang lo egyptian sudan sunday school times |