Islam Quote by Mustafa Akyol

“The traveler wishing to observe Islamic Spain has his choice of two cities, Granada with its Alhambra or Córdoba with its Great Mosque (in…

— James A. Michener

“An Islamic ideology capable of giving Muslims freedom, social justice and of interacting with other religions, cultures and ideologies”

— Hasan Hanafi

“To the traveller imbued with a feeling for the historical and poetical, so inseparately interwined in the annals of romantic Spain, the Alhambra is…

— Washington Irving

“That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found…

— George Eliot

“I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand…

— Amin Maalouf

“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

“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

“Today, Medina is simultaneously the archetype of Islamic democracy and the impetus for Islamic militancy. Islamic Modernists like the Egyptian writer and political philosopher…

— Reza Aslan

“To safeguard the holiest symbol of their Catholic faith, the Toledo churchmen, escorted by a small cohort of armed nobles, had fled with the…

— David Levering Lewis

“The medieval islamic world offered vastly more freedom than any of its predecessors, its contemporaries and most of its successors”

— Bernard Lewis

“the reason he had known about Islam long before he studied the religion at Dartmouth. He was one-quarter Muslim by birth. Noor had”

— Alex Berenson

“It is time, however, to consider the special part destined to be played by England in the drama of the Mussulman future. England, if…

— Wilfrid Scawen Blunt