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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 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 medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But…

— Prince Charles

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

“It seems clear that the Arab East still sees the West as a natural enemy. Against that enemy, any hostile action-be it political, military,…

— Amin Maalouf

“With this assertion, many mainstream Muslims wash their hands of the twin brutalities that shape the lives of perhaps a quarter of the women…

— Geraldine Brooks

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

— Edward Said

As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into Europe for…

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Bernard Lewis

“In truth, “Arab” terrorism in the Holy Land originated centuries before the recent tool of “the Palestinian cause was invented.” In towns where Jews…

— Hal Lindsey

“The medieval Islamic world . . . offered vastly more freedom than any of its predecessors, its contemporaries and most of its successors. —Bernard…

— Mustafa Akyol

Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.

— John Cusack