Excerpt from The Koran (c. seventh century)
Translated by N. J. Dawood; Published in 1990

Excerpt from "The Holy Light; How It Descends upon the Holy Sepulchre," in The Pilgrimage of the Russian Abbot Daniel in the Holy Land (1106–1107)
Originally written by Abbot Daniel; Published in 1888

Excerpt from "The Prior Who Became a Moslem," in Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (c. 1000—1400)
Reprinted in The Arabian Nights; Translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton; Published in 1997

"Profession of Faith" (1120)
Originally written by Omar Khayyam; Reprinted in The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East; Edited by Charles F. Horne; Published in 1917

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