It is taught as such by the most revered sacred texts, traditions, institutions, top academic centers, scholars and leaders of the Islamic faith.

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Ultimately, thanks to these efforts, millions of objects and sacred texts were returned to their rightful heirs or held in trust by Jewish successor organizations.

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These markets of language, complimented by reading sacred texts in the mother tongue, created a new sense of community among speakers of each language, the seeds of nationalism.

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Revealed by God to the Prophet Muhammad, The Koran, or Qur'an (recitation) is the sacred book of Islam, and is, with the Bible, the most widely read of sacred texts.

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Of all the sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity, some of the most arresting are works like Wisdom of Sirach, whose apocalyptic tone reflects the shock of the Jewish religious establishment at the encounter with Hellenic culture.

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That approach was first used by German scholars, and then British ones, just over a century ago, on the texts sacred to Christianity, using techniques honed on the writings of Greece and Rome.

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