Brilliant Quote by Bertrand Russell

Our use of the phrase 'The Dark Ages' to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe. [...]…

— Bertrand Russell

“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

“While the Muslim world took delight in innovation, progress and new ideas, much of Christian Europe withered in the gloom, crippled by a lack…

— Peter Frankopan

“History proves beyond any possibility of doubt that no religion has ever given a stimulus to scientific progress comparable to that of Islam. The…

— Muhammad Asad

“It was Islam’s armies and the empire they spread across three continents that reduced Christianity, with a few scattered exceptions, to a European faith.”

— Nigel Cliff

“Islam became the uncontested ‘last resort’. The fall of loyalties and ideologies, the lack of national projects and the sense of humiliation as a…

— Tarek Osman

“Any acquaintance with recent history made nonsense of any claim that God was on the side of Christian states. As one scholar suggests, what…

— Philip Jenkins

“Already by 300, Christianity was firmly rooted among ordinary Egyptians, too deeply to be affected very badly by most disasters that might befall, whether…

— Philip Jenkins

Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have to be even more Christocentric because of the influence of Islam today.

— Rick Warren

Christianity and Islam are today the most numerous and fastest growing religions globally. Together they encompass more than half of humanity. Consequence: both are…

— Miroslav Volf

“Its insistence upon “knowledge” has no doubt made medieval Muslim civi lization one of great scholarly and scientifi c productivity, and through it, Muslim…

— Franz Rosenthal