The International Institute of Islamic Thought and…

“Ibn al-Wahhab was not the godfather of contemporary terrorist movements. Rather, he was a voice of reform, reflecting mainstream eighteenth-century Islamic thought. His vision…

— Natana J. Delong-Bas

“Ibn Taimiyah spent years hunting down any philosophical interpretation that appeared to deviate from the literalist, ‘clear’ interpretation of the Koran. He was especially…

— Tarek Osman

“Muslims in the West and those in other intellectually free societies will be in a position to contribute to Islamic thought more so than…

— Abdullah Saeed

“The Musalman, remaining faithful to his religion, has not progressed; he has remained stationary in a world of swiftly moving modern forces. It is,…

— B.R. Ambedkar

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the…

— Dean Spade

Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion…

— Wendy Kaminer

Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous people, populations…

— Dean Spade

“We should also make ourselves aware that our cultural, ethical, religious, and intellectual traditions have all been profoundly affected by other peoples’.”

— Karen Armstrong

From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Our founders built a new order atop specifically European intellectual traditions.

— Ross Douthat

The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated.

— Katharine Sharp

If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a…

— Tom Peters

“She might ban me from the library." "The marvelous thing about libraries is that their contents can be easily moved.”

— Alissa Johnson

Library: A place where the dead lie.

— Elbert Hubbard

“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They…

— Gina Sheridan