This book was written with many words which are archaic or obsolete by
today's standards. However, all such words (other than transliterations
of Arabic) are listed in O.E.D., and have been maintained in this
book as they were in the original. The only changes to the text were
inserting omitted section and chapter titles in the Analytical Table
of Contents and in the Notes chapter, and correcting such titles in
those two locations when they did not match the corresponding titles
elsewhere in the text.
The line _In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful_ is used
as an introduction or prolog to all the chapters of the Koran, with
two exceptions: This line does not appear at the beginning of chapter
ix. (which does not appear in this book). And in the case of the first
chapter, Fatihah (which does appear in this book), this line is part
of the poetry, not a prolog or introduction. I have left the line in
the book at the beginning of Fatihah separated from the rest of the
chapter because that is the way it appeared in the original text. This
representation is incorrect, there should be no break from the rest of
the chapter.