EL KOR'ÂN;

OR,

THE KORAN.

LONDON:

WYMAN AND SONS, PRINTERS, GREAT QUEEN STREET,

LINCOLN'S-INN FIELDS, W.c.

EL-KOR'ÂN;

OR,

THE KORAN:

TRANSLATED FROM THE ARABIC,

THE SURAS ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER;

WITH NOTES AND INDEX.

BY

J. M. RODWELL, M.A.

OF CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AND RECTOR OF ST. ETHELBURGA, LONDON.

Second Revised and Amended Edition.

LONDON:

BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY.

DER KORAN.

So oft wir auch daran gehen, immer von neuem anwidert, dann aber anzieht, in Erstaunen setzt, und am Ende Verehrung abnöthigt. . . . Der Styl des Korans ist, seinem Inhalt und Zweck gemäss, streng, gross, furchtbar, stellenweis wahrhaft erhaben. So wird dieses Buch für ewige Zeiten höchst wirksam West-Oestl. Divan.

verbleiben.-GÖTHE.

"I confess I can make nothing of the critic, in these times, who would accuse Mahomet of deceit prepense; of conscious deceit generally, or perhaps at all; still more, of living in a mere element of conscious deceit, and writing this Koran as a forger and juggler would have done! Every candid eye, I think, will read the Koran far otherwise than so. It is the confused ferment of a great rude human soul fervent, earnest. Sincerity, in all senses, seems to me the merit of the Koran."-CARLYLE.

ΤΟ

SIR WILLIAM MARTIN, KT., D.C.L.

LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF NEW ZEALAND,

This Volume is Dedicated,

WITH SINCERE FEELINGS OF ESTEEM FOR

HIS PRIVATE WORTH, PUBLIC SERVICES,

AND

EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS,

BY

THE TRANSLATOR.