The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the…

“There were African slaves in China from at least the seventh century CE, and, Wolf reports, “by 1119 most of the wealthy people of…

— David Christian

“the seventh-century biblical narratives transformed a slow, peaceful process into a something more dramatic, in order to stress the importance of the obedience of…

— Simon Price

“By the seventh century, Christianity probably was far stronger and more sophisticated in North Africa and Asia than in Europe.”

— Rodney Stark

“But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.”

— Mark Steyn

There is something which is going to be one of the main challenges in the Muslim world today, in the Muslim-majority countries in the…

— Tariq Ramadan

In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of…

— Salman Rushdie

“The Arab world has no peer when it comes to hatred - of the Western world generally, and especially of Israel. Israel-hatred and its…

— Dennis Prager

The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab

— Hisham Melhem

Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the French occupation…

— Zainab Salbi

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will…

— Naguib Mahfouz

I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us…

— George H. W. Bush

More attention should be given to the Arab world and the human rights abuse that is taking place every day in many countries in…

— Jamal Khashoggi

“The routine expression of hatred for others is so common in the Arab world that it barely draws comment other than from the region’s…

— Tim Marshall

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat…

— Anonymous

Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every…

— Wadah Khanfar