Books Quote by Isabella Bird

I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you…

— Yuna

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

— Tariq Ramadan

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

— Ibn Khaldun

Though I read and speak Malayalam, Malayalis won't accept outsiders speaking their language.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

“It is found that the Egyptian language has an appreciable admixture of Semitic, which was derived ultimately from Arabia.”

— James John Courtenay

“The likeness of Ethiopic to Arabic suggests an original tribal affinity.”

— James John Courtenay

I read nasheeds (Islamic songs) in English, in Arabic. I read nasheeds even in Bangla language. Now I don't just travel to meet people…

— Junaid Jamshed

Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and…

— Tariq Ramadan

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't…

— Hassan Blasim

“Writing his geographical dictionary, a North african Arab originally from the Yemen, expanded on the history of pre-Islamic Christianity in the region of Najran,…

— Kamal Salibi

During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs,…

— Philip Khuri Hitti

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be…

— Chath Piersath