Block Quote by Arnold Beichman

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an…

— Salman Rushdie

[The Koran is one of] the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known.

— William Muir

So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Koran is just God's unaltered word. They like to quote…

— Gerd R. Puin

My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad.…

— Gerd R. Puin

“The people the Quran describes have a deep and sophisticated knowledge of the Biblical Tradition.”

— Tom Holland

“The Middle East is an immense focal point of all kinds of collective forces: economic, religious, social, ideological, and cultural. We have tremendous financial…

— Ritama Davidson

“Extremist sects in Islam cultivated cryptography to conceal their writings from the orthodox.”

— David Kahn

The Middle East is rejecting any other religions, so it's a one sided multiculturalism.

— Mark Durie

These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.

— Frank Carlucci

“The Qur’an sought to reform, not to destroy and start from scratch, to salvage what was useful and then to modify and build on…

— Jeffrey Lang

In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of…

— Reza Aslan

I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic…

— Tony Blair