Islamic Literature Quotes

#1. I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#2. If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

Richard Dawkins

#3. People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility. (p. 81)

James Baldwin

#4. I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

Groucho Marx

#5. Life begins at age forty.

Walter B. Pitkin

#6. It is each woman's responsibility to take the time when she is in her time of the moon to purify. It is the responsibility of the men to give the women the opportunity to do so. Nicholas Noble Wolf,

Lucy H. Pearce

#7. One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

A.B. Simpson

#8. I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

Azar Nafisi