Philosophy Quote by Karen Armstrong

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

“The Qur’an sought to reform, not to destroy and start from scratch, to salvage what was useful and then to modify and build on…

— Jeffrey Lang

“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

“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

“Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the…

— Jim Al-Khalili

Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If…

— Timothy Leary

“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

“The Qur’ān began by criticizing two closely related aspects of that society: the polytheism or multiplicity of gods which was symptomatic of the segmentation…

— Fazlur Rahman

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of…

— Karen Armstrong

“all rightly guided religion that submitted wholly to God, refused to worship man-made deities and preached that justice and equality came from the same…

— Karen Armstrong

“In principle, all Islamic polities were (and are) required by Quranic injunction not to harm the dhimmi, to tolerate the Christians and Jews living…

— Maria Rosa Menocal

Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting…

— Christopher Hitchens