Authority Quote by Feisal Abdul Rauf

“Al-Azhar had over several decades lost part of its authoritative intellectual firepower. Several notable theologians emerged in Egypt (and elsewhere in the Sunni world)…

— Tarek Osman

“Yusuf As’ar Yath’ar: the last Jewish king ever to rule in Arabia.”

— Tom Holland

Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a long history…

— Peter Bergen

There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.

— Tariq Ali

“Islamic cultures tend to establish people of high status as authorities, whereas the authority in Western culture is reason itself.”

— Nabeel Qureshi

“Abu Abdullah Ibn Battuta came from a prominent family of judges who studied thick tomes of Islamic law and wrote legally binding opinions on…

— Michael Rank

I think that Hassan Nasrallah is the best leader in the Muslim world.

— George Galloway

“The words of the Quran all seemed strangely familiar yet so unlike anything I had ever read before,’ he told us. He embraced Islam…

— Kristiane Backer

“Ibn Taimiyah spent years hunting down any philosophical interpretation that appeared to deviate from the literalist, ‘clear’ interpretation of the Koran. He was especially…

— Tarek Osman

Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology or canon…

— Khaled Abou El Fadl

“was a watershed event, establishing a utilitarian morality that runs through Islamic theology: anything that benefits Muslims and Islam is good, and anything that…

— Robert Spencer

“My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others,…

— Anonymous