Core Quote by Samuel P. Huntington

“Traditionally, Muslims and Christians have shared this understanding. Each believes in truth, not the least because they believe their faith is true. But their…

— Nabeel Qureshi

The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

— Hamza Yusuf

The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in…

— Edward Said

Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects of our…

— Fethullah Gulen

The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West. The two…

— Aga Khan IV

I'm afraid that a lot of things that people believe about Islam are totally different from the religion that most of us recognize. I…

— Cat Stevens

“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

I think confronted with the modern world or with the rest of the world, I think people are becoming aware that the Western and…

— Bernard Lewis

“The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: compared with Gothic art, above all in its “flamboyant”…

— Frithjof Schuon

Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates.

— Rene Girard

The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have…

— Tariq Ramadan