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  • noun Plural form of sura.

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Examples

  • According to Wilders, it would be shown on a split screen, with verses and suras from the Koran on one side and examples of Sharia law being carried out on the other, including a beheading and a stoning.

    How a Film Triggered a Global Panic « Isegoria 2008

  • It was not the whole Quran, just the thirty shortest chapters, which are known as suras.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • It was not the whole Quran, just the thirty shortest chapters, which are known as suras.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • It was not the whole Quran, just the thirty shortest chapters, which are known as suras.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • Last year the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill required all of its incoming freshmen and transfer students to read and then discuss Approaching the Qu'ran, a new translation of a handful of suras from the Muslim holy book.

    IsThatLegal? 2003

  • The book's organizing principle is neither chronological nor thematic — for the most part the suras are arranged from beginning to end in descending order of length.

    What Is the Koran? 1999

  • The book's organizing principle is neither chronological nor thematic — for the most part the suras are arranged from beginning to end in descending order of length.

    What Is the Koran? 1999

  • The Quran consists of 114 'suras' (chapters) with the total of 6236 ayat (verses).

    The Economic Times 2009

  • Fitna also depicted muslims who talked about these Koranic suras.

    Matthew Yglesias » Free Speech 2009

  • As I sipped black coffee and read suras (verses) that seemed oddly obsessed with Jews, I felt this powerful disconnect between what I was feeling internally -- Why must Islam care so much about us?

    Stuart Dow: Salhad Din: My Experience As Other Stuart Dow 2010

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