From Stanford Magazine.
"The freshmen enrolled in the introductory seminar The Qur’an in History had read translations of the verses before class, but as they followed the words of the Islamic text and listened to the melodic invocations of Allah and the dramatic quavers that introduced apocalyptic themes, they appeared to be absorbing the lines for the first time."
"One other omission [from Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990)] that was probably a mistake on our part was not including references to the Koran (qur’an) along with the Old and New Testament in the Reference Section of the 102 Chapters of the Syntopicon." Mortimer J. Adler, A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large, 1991, p.141, n. 4.
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