Circumstances Quote by Toby Lester

...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There…

— Barbara G. Walker

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

My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad.…

— Gerd R. Puin

“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

“Brought up, as Mahomet was, in the house of the guardian of the Caaba, the ceremonies and devotions connected with the sacred edifice may…

— Washington Irving

“Judaic monotheism had deeply penetrated Arabia for almost a century before Muhammad declared his revelation in 610 in one of the towns – Makka,…

— Simon Schama

“Whatever else it may be, the Qur’an is no work of history. Startlingly, were it not for all the commentaries elucidating its mysteries, all…

— Tom Holland

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

“Besides Jewish and Christian traditions, Islam also contains some traces of pagan traditions. In fact, the Ka’aba, the Meccan shrine to which every Muslim,…

— Robert Spencer

“Dr. Mark A. Gabriel, Ph.D., a former professor of Islamic history at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt has described the contents of the Quran:…

— John Price

“The Book revealed to Muhammad is one and unique of its kind. It has left indelible impression on the hearts of humanity. Nothing can…

— Rev. B. Margoliouth

Mecca and Medinah is a very special place in the hearts of every Muslim but particularly for every Afghan.

— Ashraf Ghani