Important Quote by Bernard Lewis

I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about…

— Talal Asad

I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions of a…

— Talal Asad

“these traditions did not come from the Quran. They are found in hadith. From marital rites to martial restrictions, commercial laws to civil suits,…

— Nabeel Qureshi

There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea…

— Mustafa Akyol

“Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology, the ideology of a retarded culture. I have a problem with Islamic tradition, culture, ideology. Not…

— Geert Wilders

Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They…

— Bassam Tibi

In most of the countries in the Muslim world today, most of them are autocratic regimes that are unpopular if not detested by their…

— Bernard Lewis

The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are…

— Tariq Ramadan

In many places around the world, including Turkey until the 1950s, Muslims didn't have full freedom of religion. Even personal practice was not allowed,…

— Fethullah Gulen

Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

— Abu Bakar Bashir

Religiosity amongst younger Muslims is not about following their parents' cultural traditions, but rather, their interest in religion is more politicized.

— Munira Mirza

Muslim societies must leave behind these dual aspects: secularism/Islamism.

— Tariq Ramadan