Academy Quote by James Buchan

“The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed. This fact…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“History proves beyond any possibility of doubt that no religion has ever given a stimulus to scientific progress comparable to that of Islam. The…

— Muhammad Asad

“While the Muslim world took delight in innovation, progress and new ideas, much of Christian Europe withered in the gloom, crippled by a lack…

— Peter Frankopan

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust…

— Aly Khan

The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of his dormant potential.

— Malcolm X

“That the essence of Islam is permanent war with non-Muslims was the standard view of Islam held by Western scholars before 9/11.”

— Peter Mcloughlin

“In the Islamic world itself also there is a great crisis in he modern established universities precisely because the systems from the West have…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Too often historians, beguiled by the theories of anthropologists and sociologists, fascinated by the possibilities of their theoretical categories, have forgotten that the Reformation…

— Margo Todd

In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research in the…

— Jacob Needleman

“The truth that there is an infinite, eternal, and personal mind behind the realities of the universe that can be detected through human reflection…

— Kenneth Samples

“For much of the history of Islam, moreover, the Christian world was not noticeably ahead in political or economic power, or in culture. When…

— Philip Jenkins