June 2005

Beyond the Dictionary: Quran or Koran

Transliterating the name of Islam's sacred scripture from the Arabic into the Roman alphabet gives us more than one spelling, and that's just the beginning of what most of us don't know about this holy book.

Learn more and see the article on Quran from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia, available online to all Merriam-Webster Unabridged and Merriam-Webster Collegiate subscribers.