Islamic History Quotes

#1. Islamic tradition is full of examples of supporting the autonomy of women and the empowerment of women. Very few people know that in Islamic history there have been well over two thousand women jurists.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

#2. I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#3. Islamic history is written in two types of ink. Black for the ink of the scholars and red for the blood of the martyrs!

Me

#4. A man without any history is like a tree without roots

Malcolm X

#5. The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.

Marmaduke Pickthall

#6. There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

David Foster Wallace

#7. The cinema that I make is a cinema about people, emotion, humanity and passion. It's not just about what they struggle through, but what they live for. That's what I love. The music they love, the people they love, the clothing, the hair and the life that they love

David O. Russell

#8. The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of Islamic militants from Saudi Arabia, the United States countered by invading an unrelated country, and one of the most secular in the Middle East at that.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#9. Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.

J.M. Coetzee

#10. The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

William Hardy McNeill

#11. The university... has intimidated her so that she will always give the "right" answer instead of the Christian answer, regardless of what she really believes.

Anna Sofia Botkin

#12. This is what you are here for: to glorify God and enjoy Him thoroughly and forever, telling the universe how great God is.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#13. I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.

Naguib Mahfouz

#14. For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.

David McNally

#15. Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you.

Haj Amin Al-Husseini

#16. I get to remind myself and other people to be yourself, to rock you who you are, and don't worry about if it fits.

Kelsea Ballerini

#17. I have memories, but I don't know if they are really mine or if I've just seen so many pictures. I think that I remember riding on his sailboat with him, and playing under his desk in the Oval Office, but those images are everywhere, so do I really remember them or just imagine how it all happened?

Bethany Turner

#18. The Western world doesn't really give enough credit to the importance in history of the Soviet invasion and the subsequent war in Afghanistan. For us it was a sideshow of the Cold War. For the Islamic world it was an unprovoked infidel invasion of a Muslim country not unlike Iraq.

Michael Scheuer

#19. If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history

Will Durant

#20. The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

William Penn

#21. We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

C. G. Jung