DWOC's International Burn a Koran Day

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Originally Posted by tryfuhl

It has been transliterated in several different forms, your example being one of them. I believe that the most "accepted" as far as beliefs/accuracy goes is "Qur'an" but I could be mistaken.

lol @ Koran as in Korea.. where were you going with that?

You are correct. Qur'an is the most faithful transliteration for the Arabic title, which means "recitation" in English. Transliterating Arabic into English is difficult since there is not a one-to-one correspondence between sounds. Hence the many versions of English spellings.