The medieval Islamic world . . . offered vastly more…

“The medieval islamic world offered vastly more freedom than any of its predecessors, its contemporaries and most of its successors”

— Bernard Lewis

The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But…

— Prince Charles

Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of…

— Richard Engel

[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab…

— Edward Said

“In the Islamic world itself also there is a great crisis in he modern established universities precisely because the systems from the West have…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Khomeini espoused a militant religious doctrine rejecting not only the Middle Eastern political order, but also the contemporary international system since both perpetuated an…

— Efraim Karsh

I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one…

— Thomas P. Campbell

In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the early 20th…

— Mustafa Akyol

We now have some years of very reliable polling by Western firms in the Islamic world, in multiple Islamic countries. And invariably, the question…

— Michael Scheuer

Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was to act…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Without Sufism, Islam would not have spread into two thirds of what we call the Islamic world.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The Islamic world is suffering not only because of external oppression but also because of the loss of its own dignity, of its own…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's…

— Mira Nair

If you look at the curricula of most universities and schools in this country [USA], considering our long encounter with the Islamic world, there…

— Edward Said

We reject President Donald Trump's view. It was a mistake to say that 'the Islamic world divided into "good" and "evil"', a major wrongdoing.

— Khaled Mashal