Marriage Quote by Iraj Pezeshkzad

“In my case, the effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of…

— T. E. Lawrence

“He fished a sky blue burqa from the bag. The yards of pleated cloth spilled over his knees when he lifted it. He rolled…

— Khaled Hosseini

“That night, I waited until Baba fell asleep, and then folded a blanket. I used it as a prayer rug. Bowing my head to…

— Khaled Hosseini

“He shook his head, but I kept flattering him, telling him how fine his beard was, how fair his skin was (ha!), how it…

— Aravind Adiga

“A modern story of Mullah Nasrudin, the Sufi teacher and holy fool, tells of him entering a bank and trying to cash a check.…

— Jack Kornfield

“A new voice haild me of an old friend when, first returned from the Peninsula, I paced again in that long street of Damascus…

— Charles Montagu Doughty

“One time her father told her Shakespeare was really an Arab. 'Just look at his name: It's an Anglicization of Sheikh Zubayr,' he said…

— Mohja Kahf

“Here is a man who by all conventions should have been a denizen of the lower depths of society: ignored, illiterate, disfigured, limping, penniless,…

— Michael Sugich

“My father(Imam Al-Baqir (as)) refined my manners by three statements. He said to me 'O son! A man who befriends a vile person cannot…

— Imam Al-Saqid

“God, you smell intoxicating.” “It’s jasmine,” she said dreamily. “It reminds me of Damascus,” he told her, brushing the tip of his nose against…

— Deanna Raybourn

“I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand…

— Amin Maalouf

It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how…

— Annie Besant