Koran Quote by Karen Armstrong

“In [the] early days, Muslims did not see Islam as a new, exclusive religion but as a continuation of the primordial faith of the…

— Karen Armstrong

“One of the secrets of the Muslim army's power was its relatively liberal attitude toward the religions of the defeated people-provided they were monoththeists,…

— Shlomo Sand

“It has been argued that the hostility of the Arabian Jewish tribes to Mohammed was due to his alliances with dissenting Jewish sects.8 Our…

— Harry Freedman

“From the very start, the Prophet did not conceive the content of his message as the expression of pure otherness versus what the Arabs…

— Tariq Ramadan

“Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no…

— Huston Smith

300 years after the rise of Islam there were Zoroastrians in Iran. The Muslim armies never forced people to accept Islam. It was only…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Since the rise of Islam, Jews had lived as a tolerated minority, or dhimmi, a status granted to Jews and Christians because they were…

— Matti Friedman

“Judaic monotheism had deeply penetrated Arabia for almost a century before Muhammad declared his revelation in 610 in one of the towns – Makka,…

— Simon Schama

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had…

— Carroll Quigley

“Christianity—and Judaism, and Islam, which were also religions of The Book—required”

— Tom Clancy

“As dhimmi, Jews and Christians had rights, including the right to practice their religion and establish their own communities. In return, they had to…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind…

— Dr. Mawde Royden