Angel Quote by Thomas Pynchon

The unbeliever knows his Koran best.

— Omar Khayyam

In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammed was 'Read.

— Jeanette Winter

The Prophet was taken by the order of God to heaven, which is a prototype of all spiritual realization in Islam. But, he had…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad…

— Robert M. Price

The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to…

— Daniel Pipes

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

— Christopher Hitchens

“The Prophets, too, among us come to teach, Are one with those who from the pulpit preach; They pray, and slay, and pass away,…

— Abu Al-Maari

Allah gave the Qur'an to a very special man, who passed it on to us, for the rest of all our days.

— Dawud Wharnsby Ali

“nodded. “The Prophet lived about five hundred years after Jesus. Unlike the Bible, which is the collected writings of many authors over many centuries,…

— Jeffrey Small

The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through the angel Gabriel, had the power they…

— Julian Baggini

“...the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish.”

— Sam Harris

Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil…

— Alexis de Tocqueville