the name of a Mohammedan sect, who derive their name from their founder. Isa-Alerdad. They hold that the Koran was created, notwithstanding the opposition of Mohammed himself against such a statement, for he held that it was eternal, and in his day anathematized he who dared to dissent from his assertion. The Isites, however, really avow the same belief, ‘ though they clothe it in very different language. They say that the copy of the Koran delivered by the Almighty to his Prophet was only a transcription of the original, and that the reference of eternal could not therefore be to any copy possessed by man. But their real heresy consists in their declaration that the Koran does not contain that matchless eloquence which Mohammedans generally claim as evidence of the inspiration of the book. See Broughton, Biblioth. Histor. Sac. 1, 547.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More