Islam Quote by Dimitri Gutas

“Certainly the most significant of [the political, social and ideological currents playing a role in the development of philosophical texts in Arabic] was the…

— Dimitri Gutas

“One may guess that the commissioning of this work [a logical textbook and translation into Arabic of Aristotle and Porphyry] must have come from…

— Dimitri Gutas

“At the center of discussion were the questions of legitimacy of succession to the caliphate, the relationship of leadership to faith, and the concomitant…

— Dimitri Gutas

“The beginnings of Arabic philosophical literature can be described as taking place in two stages. The first occurs from roughly the middle of the…

— Dimitri Gutas

“Language was critically important to the religious transition. The rise of Islam meant not just the eclipse of Christianity but the near annihilation of…

— Philip Jenkins

“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

“Criticism of the sanctity of books such as the Qur’an was voiced by the Mu’tazilites, who claimed that the Qur’an should not be seen…

— Yaakov Malkin

“Syriac ... was not a prominent element in the language of Palestine in pre-Christian times.”

— James John Courtenay

“In ways that have not yet been properly understood, philosophy had a second beginning in Abbasid society by the end of the ninth century…

— Dimitri Gutas

“... classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the early Islamic…

— Jim Al-Khalili

Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Unlike Christianity, the laws and beliefs in Islam and Judaism are derived through a process of reasoning and scholarship; there are no councils or…

— Harry Freedman