Islam Quote by Peter Frankopan

“While nobody can pretend that Christian religious practice is thriving in most of Europe, the situation is nothing as grim as some recent accounts…

— Philip Jenkins

“It was Islam’s armies and the empire they spread across three continents that reduced Christianity, with a few scattered exceptions, to a European faith.”

— Nigel Cliff

“For much of the history of Islam, moreover, the Christian world was not noticeably ahead in political or economic power, or in culture. When…

— Philip Jenkins

“Any acquaintance with recent history made nonsense of any claim that God was on the side of Christian states. As one scholar suggests, what…

— Philip Jenkins

“How strange that the only lands where he could feel something close to safe were the Christian countries of Europe, which Muslims had struggled…

— Tom Clancy

From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but…

— Bertrand Russell

“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

“History proves beyond any possibility of doubt that no religion has ever given a stimulus to scientific progress comparable to that of Islam. The…

— Muhammad Asad

“Islam became the uncontested ‘last resort’. The fall of loyalties and ideologies, the lack of national projects and the sense of humiliation as a…

— Tarek Osman

“One reason why the developed world has a difficult job grappling with the Islamist threat is that it doesn't take religion seriously. It condescends…

— Mark Steyn

“The secularizing 'values' and events that have been predicted would happen in the Muslim world have now begun to unfold with increasing momentum and…

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is…

— Robert Briffault