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a word which very frequently occurs in the Koran, and denotes the Gospel or New Test. as distinguished from the Taourat, the Law or Old Test. Mohammedans generally understand by Engil, as used in the Koran, an imaginary gospel, which they say was sent by God from heaven to Jesus Christ, and of which nothing remains but what is cited in the Koran; while the gospel which is in the hands of Christians they regard as corrupted.