Show turks shaken in their veneration for koran arabic being a sacred language the ecclesiastics have cried out against their holy book the lie koran appearing in any other tongue but the turkish government has in spite of tills this allowed the publication of three separate translations fourteen thousand copies have been sold turks who formerly heard tile sounding rounding 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 konin Is read in the vernacular V arnac 11 lar it Is sometimes in es enough to pl place ce a koran and a testament in the hands ands of a turkish reader and leave him to draw his own conclusions it Is said that demai rasha 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 tile kornn and islam Is gaining ground constantly in the anglo egyptian sudan sunday school times |