East and west Quote by Ali Al-Tantawi

“By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“In a major encyclopedia one reads phrases such as: ‘Islam expanded in the eighth or ninth centuries…’; ‘This or that country passed into Muslim…

— John Price

“For much of the history of Islam, moreover, the Christian world was not noticeably ahead in political or economic power, or in culture. When…

— Philip Jenkins

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of…

— John Keegan

The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story about the…

— Toby Lester

Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.

— Orderic Vitalis

“RADICAL MUSLIM LEADERS BELIEVE THEY HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO RESTORE THE CALIPHATE AND THUS BRING ABOUT THE END OF WORLD HISTORY”

— John Price

The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

— Helen Westley

“The medieval Islamic world . . . offered vastly more freedom than any of its predecessors, its contemporaries and most of its successors. —Bernard…

— Mustafa Akyol

And the fact that the Muslim world, over the course of a decade, rallied and defeated a superpower is an extraordinary symbol in the…

— Michael Scheuer

“Most of history is indisputably written by the winners, yet "winning" at Poitiers actually meant that the economic, scientific, and cultural levels that Europeans…

— David Levering 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