Author: Koran

Cited by

• Mary Stewart (1)
  • IN: The Gabriel Hounds (1967) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No vain discourse shalt thou hear therein: Therein shall be a gushing fountain; Therein shall be raised couches, And goblets ready placed, And cushions laid in order, And carpets spread forth.
    FROM: The Koran, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• Jeet Thayil (1)
  • IN: Narcopolis (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We made the whole earth a couch for you. And the mountains its tent stakes. We created you of two sexes. And ordained your sleep for rest.
    FROM: Sura LXXVIII, (632), Koran, NULL
• André Gide (1)
  • IN: The Fruits of the Earth (1949) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Here are the fruits of the earth, on which we are nourished.
    FROM: The Koran, II, 25, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• Lawrence Block (1)
  • IN: A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If God should punish men according to what they deserve, He would not leave so much as a beast on the back of the earth.
    FROM: The Koran, (632), Religious text, NULL
• Iain, M. Banks (1)
  • IN: Consider Phlebas (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Idolatry is worse than carnage.
    FROM: The Koran 2:190, (632), Koran, NULL
• Robert Silverberg (1)
  • IN: The Alien Years (1997) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the sun no longer shines, when the stars drop from the sky and the mountains are blown away, when camels great with young are left untended and the wild beasts come together, when the seas are set on fire and men's souls are reunited, when...the record of men's deeds are laid open, and heaven is stripped bare, when Hell burns fiercely and Paradise approached; then each soul shall understand what it has done.
    FROM: The Koran 81st Surah, (632), Koran, NULL
• Kristin Harmel (1)
  • IN: The Sweetness of Forgetting (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All God's creatures are His family and he is the most beloved of God who doeth most good to God's creatures.
    FROM: NULL, (632), Koran, NULL
• Leonardo Padura (1)
  • IN: Havana Gold (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He is the one who knows the mystery and bears witness…
    FROM: The Koran, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• James Salter (1)
  • IN: A Sport and a Pastime (1967) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Remember that the life of this world is but a sport and a pastime...
    FROM: Koran, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• Jack Higgins (2)
  • IN: Dark Justice (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: One sword is worth ten thousand words.
    FROM: The Koran, (632), Religious Text, NULL
  • IN: The President’s Daughter (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There is more truth in one sword than in ten thousand words.
    FROM: The Koran, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• Iain Banks (1)
  • IN: Consider Phlebas (1987) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Idolatry is worse than carnage.
    FROM: The Koran, 2: 190, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• Ibrahim al-Koni (1)
  • IN: The Bleeding of the Stone (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There are no animals on land or birds flying on their wings, but are communities like your own.
    FROM: Quran 6:38, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• David Gibbins (1)
  • IN: Pyramid (None) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Moses threw down his staff and thereupon it changed to a veritable serpent…Pharaoh sent forth heralds to all the cities. “These,” they said, “are but a puny band, who have provoked us much. But we are a numerous army, well-prepared.”…At sunrise the Egyptians followed them. And when the two multitudes came within sight of each other, Moses’ companions said: “We are surely undone!” “No,” Moses replied, “my Lord is with me, and He will guide me.” We bade Moses strike the sea with his staff, and the sea was cleft asunder, each part as high as a massive mountain. In between We made the others follow. We delivered Moses and all who were with him, and drowned the rest…
    FROM: Qur’ān, Al-Shu’Arā’ (The Poets), 26: 32–66 (trans. N. J. Dawood), (632), Religious Text, NULL
• Paul Hardisty (1)
  • IN: The Abrupt Physics of Dying (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When the sky is torn When the stars are shattered When the seas are poured forth When the tombs are bust open Then a soul will know what it has given And what it has held back
    FROM: The Holy Qu'ran, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• Youssef Fadel (1)
  • IN: A Beautiful White Cat Walks With Me (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: They say: 'Our Lord! Hasten for us our sentence even before the Day of Reckoning!'
    FROM: Qur'an 38:16, (632), Koran, NULL
• Alan Drew (1)
  • IN: Garden of Water (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the earth with her quaking will quake, And her burden the earth will cast forth, And man will say: "What is the matter with her?" On that Day she will tell forth her news, Because thy lord will have inspired her. On that Day, the people will go forward individually, that they may be shown their works. Whosoever has done an atom's weight of good will see it, And whoso has done an atom's weight of evil will see it.
    FROM: The Qur'an, Sura 99, (632), Koran, NULL
• Matt Burgess (1)
  • IN: Dogfight, a Love Story (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the crack of doom arrives... man will flee from his brother.
    FROM: The Qur'an, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• James Buchan (1)
  • IN: The Gate of Air (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: They say there were three of them, and their dog made it four.
    FROM: Koran 18:22, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• Annie Dillard (1)
  • IN: The Abundance (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They will question thee concerning what they should expend. Say: The Abundance.
    FROM: Sura of the Cow, (632), Koran, NULL
• Marmaduke Pickthall (1)
  • IN: Said the Fisherman (1903) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “There were some of them who made a covenant with God : Verily, if He gives us of His abundance, we will give alms and become righteous people.”
    FROM: The Koran, (632), Koran, NULL
• Orhan Pamuk (3)
  • IN: My Name is Red (1998) Historical Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: To God belongs the East and the West.
    FROM: Koran, "The Cow" 115, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• Gemma Files (1)
  • IN: Signal To Noise (2011) Speculative Fiction, Short Story, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ... reckon not those who are killed in Allah's way as dead; nay, they are alive (and) are provided sustenance from their Lord. Never think that those who have perished in jihad are dead--they are still here. You are simply unaware of them.
    FROM: Alternate translations of Qu'ran Excerpt 3:169, Set 11, Count 32, (632), Koran, NULL
• Paul Bowles (1)
  • IN: The Spider's House (1955) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The likeness of those who choose other patrons than Allah is as the likeness of the spider when she taketh unto herself a house, and lo! the frailest of all houses is the spider's house, if they but knew.
    FROM: The Koran, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• Stephen Hunter (1)
  • IN: Dead Zero (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Surely, God has cursed the disbelievers And has prepared for them a Flaming Fire Where they will abide forever.
    FROM: Koran 72:23, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• Kameron Hurley (1)
  • IN: Rapture (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whoever works righteousness, man or woman, and has faith, verily, to them will We give a new Life, a life that is good and pure, and We will bestow on such their reward according to the best of their actions.
    FROM: Quran, Chapter 16, Verse 97, (632), Koran, NULL
• John Updike (1)
  • IN: The Coup (1978) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Does there not pass over man a space of time when his life is a blank?
    FROM: The Koran, sura 76, (632), Religious Text, NULL