History Quote by Mustafa Akyol

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the…

— Peter Jennings

“Thus, the intellectual cottage industry about Islam and Islamism that is sent into overdrive after every terrorist attack rarely lingers on the fact that…

— Pankaj Mishra

“In the Arab world, at any rate, to doubt the traditional account of Islam’s origins has been to risk death threats, prosecution for apostasy,…

— Tom Holland

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous…

— Salman Rushdie

“Al-e-Ahmad explored the ideas of Marx; he translated Camus, and brought an intense focus to his reading of Heidegger (to whom he had been…

— Pankaj Mishra

I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.

— Franklin Foer

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

— Shereen El Feki

“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

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look…

— Karen Armstrong

Islam is the Trojan Horse in Europe.

— Geert Wilders

“There was actually little talk about Islam from the first generation of leaders in Muslim countries. They had distinguished themselves as anti-imperialist activists: Atatürk,…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Prior to modern times, the term 'Islamic' (Islami in Arabic) was almost never used to define the provenance, status, or substance of things. There…

— Sherman A. Jackson