Islam Quote by David Kahn

“The Arabic knowledge of cryptography was fully set forth in the section on cryptology in the Subh al-a ‘sha, an enormous, 14-volume encyclopedia”

— David Kahn

What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has opened up…

— Reza Aslan

“In the Arab world, at any rate, to doubt the traditional account of Islam’s origins has been to risk death threats, prosecution for apostasy,…

— Tom Holland

“If the people of this religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill…

— Anonymous

“There are many lay people and scholars alike, both with and without the Muslim community, who feel that the pure orthodox Islam of the…

— Brad Thor

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

— Brent Scowcroft

“Cryptology was born among the Arabs. They were the first to discover and write down the methods of cryptanalysis. The people that exploded out…

— David Kahn

And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of…

— Samuel Adams

“the abandoning of ideological conviction – the modern surrogate for religious belief – or us-versus-them thinking won’t be easy. The experts on Islam who…

— Pankaj Mishra

I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.

— Pankaj Mishra

“Some sacred projects are so doggedly committed to advancing their particular, packaged views of believed orthodoxies that they can become blinded to good evidence…

— Christian Smith

“Intellectual life in the caliphal court just before and after the Abbasid revolution (750), during which time Ibn al-Muqaffa was active, revolved around questions…

— Dimitri Gutas