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Borrowed from Arabicالْقُرْآن(al-qurʔān), definite form of قُرْآن(qurʔān, “act of reciting”), verbal noun of قَرَأَ(qaraʔa, “to recite; to read (aloud)”). (The obsolete alternative spellings with "al-", like the Alcoran, redundantly retained the Arabic definite article.) Compare Classical Syriacܩܪܝܢܐ(qeryānā, “reading; scripture”).
‘A poor forlorn and ignorant stranger, unacquainted with the very Alcoran of the savage tribe whom you are come to reside among—Never to have heard of Markham, the most celebrated author on farriery!’
1923 December 16, “Gandhi spends his time”, in Time:
He reads largely religious books, chiefly the Gita and Upanishads. He has read the Koran and he is now re-reading the Bible.
2011 July 1, Malise Ruthven, The Guardian:
In the summer of 2002, responding to the 9/11 atrocity, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made a selection of verses from the Qur'an a mandatory text for new students.
