SELECTIONS FROM THE KORAN

Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah

Octagon Press, London, 1980

Sirdar Ali Shah's introduction gives a fascinating glimpse into the Arab world at the time of The Prophet and of the way in which the Koran was written and its accuracy preserved to the present.

Selected in 1932 by The Sirdar, these extracts were chosen 'almost entirely by considerations of modern utility... I have tried to confine it to excerpts which seemed to me to supply guidance on the problems of modern life.'
--From Selections from the Koran © 1980 by The Estate of Idries Shah.