Graduation Quote by John R. Bradley

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

Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremism and intolerance. Saudi Arabia also exports instability with its…

— Nicholas Kristof

“An unexpected but important additional advantage of living in Kampung Jawa in this respect was the presence nearby, established as recently as 1955, of…

— William R. Roff

“As one Saudi professor sternly tells his co-religionists, “Only the writings of a practising Muslim are worthy of our attention.”

— Tom Holland

“He who studies with sincere will, will be honored as a mujahid, defender of Allah. -178”

— Ahmad Fuadi

“This is the story everywhere in the wider Muslim world. Students go to the Middle East on generous scholarships and study Salafi or Wahhabi…

— John R. Bradley

“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

“While the Saudi rulers demand that their subjects adhere strictly to a rigid Wahhabism, their own behaviour could not be further removed from their…

— Andrew Feinstein

“Ibn al-Wahhab was not the godfather of contemporary terrorist movements. Rather, he was a voice of reform, reflecting mainstream eighteenth-century Islamic thought. His vision…

— Natana J. Delong-Bas

“From the time of the birth of the madhabs around the second century until now, an overwhelming majority of the Umma (Muslim nation) has…

— Sadi Kose

It is common knowledge that Saudi Arabia is the most extremist of the Muslim States. It finances the infamous Madrassas (schools) that preach a…

— James Byron Bissett

It is not true that only those people come to Islamic State who have experienced no success in life. Among them are many people…

— Abdul Sattar Abu Risha