The fundamental sacred scripture of Islam, also known as the Quran or Qur’an.
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Koran Term Timeline in The Meursault Investigation
The timeline below shows where the term Koran appears in The Meursault Investigation. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 7
One of Harun’s neighbors reads the Koran loudly all night on the weekends. No one can tell him to stop, because he’s...
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...to just one man and then disappeared forever. When he looks through “their book” (the Koran), it seems full of “redundancies, repetitions, lamentations, threats, and daydreams.”
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Chapter 9
...about his family history. Joseph, the Frenchman he has killed, is there, as is Harun’s Koran-reciting neighbor, who visits him in jail to preach about God. However, Harun says he can’t...
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...remembers that “life reposes on nothing solid.” He says that there’s one verse in the Koran he likes, which states that “if you kill a single person, it is as if...
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