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Edward Gibbon: [Guns, Germs, and Steel - The

What Non-Muslims Fates of Human Societies, 1997,
[1737-1794] Considered the greatest
say about British historian of his time.
p. 253]

Annie Besant:
 "I believe in One God and
Mohammed the Apostle of God,' [1847-1933] British theosophist and
is the simple and invariable nationalist leader in India. President

ISLAM profession of Islam. The of the Indian National Congress in

intellectual image of the Deity 1917.
has never been degraded by any
visible idol; the honors of the  "I often think that woman is
prophet have never transgressed more free in Islam than in
the measure of human virtue, Christianity. Woman is more
and his living precepts have protected by Islam than by the
THE FASTEST GROWING faith which preaches
RELIGION IN THE WORLD restrained the gratitude of his
disciples within the bounds of Monogamy. In Al-Quran the
reason and religion." law about woman is more just
and liberal. It is only in the last
[History Of The Saracen Empire, twenty years that Christian
London, 1870, p. 54.] England, has recognized the
right of woman to property,
 "More pure than the system of while Islam has allowed this
Zoroaster, more liberal than the right from all times."
law of Moses, the religion of
Mahomet might seem less [The Life and Teachings of
inconsistent with reason than Muhammad, Madras, 1932, pp.
the creed of mystery and 25, 26]
superstition which, in the
seventh century, disgraced the Bertrand Russell:
simplicity of the gospels."
[1872-1970] British philosopher,
[The History of the Decline and mathematician, and Nobel laureate,
Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 5. whose emphasis on logical analysis
p. 487] greatly influenced the course of 20th-
century philosophy.
Jared Diamond:
“Those who listen to the word and  "Our use of the phrase 'the
follow the best of it; those are the Professor of Physiology at the UCLA Dark Ages' to cover the period
ones whom God has guided, and School of Medicine; recipient of the from 699 to 1,000 marks our
those are the ones endowed with Pulitzer Prize for General Non- undue concentration on Western
understanding.” [Az-Zumar 39:18] Fiction in 1998. Europe… From India to Spain,
the brilliant civilization of Islam
 "Medieval Islam was flourished. What was lost to
technologically advanced and Christendom at this time was not
open to innovation. It achieved lost to civilization, but quite the
far higher literacy rates than in contrary… To us it seems that
contemporary Europe; it West-European civilization is
assimilated the legacy of civilization; but this is a narrow
classical Greek civilization to view."
such a degree that many
classical books are now known [History of Western Philosophy,
This is a collection of short London, 1948, p. 419]
to us only through Arabic
quotations from a wide variety of
copies. It invented windmills,
Non-Muslim notables, including trigonometry, lateen sails and Hamilton Alexander Roskeen
academics, writers, philosophers, made major advances in Gibb:
poets, politicians, and activists
metallurgy, mechanical and
belonging to the East and the West. [1895-1971] A leading orientalist
chemical engineering and
To our knowledge none of them ever scholar of his time.
irrigation methods. In the
became Muslim. These words,
middle-ages the flow of
therefore, reflect their personal  "But Islam has a still further
technology was overwhelmingly
views on various aspects of the service to render to the cause of
from Islam to Europe rather
religion of Islam. humanity. It stands after all
from Europe to Islam. Only
nearer to the real East than
after the 1500's did the net
Europe does, and it possesses a
direction of flow begin to
magnificent tradition of inter-
reverse."
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cooperation. No other society

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has such a record of success ethics for the daily conduct of life H.G. Wells:
uniting in an equality of status, suited to the whole world."
of opportunity, and of  "It was the first religion that [1866 -1946] was an English writer.
endeavours so many and so preached and practiced He was prolific in many genres,
various races of mankind … democracy for, in the mosque writing dozens of novels, short
Islam has still the power to when the call for prayer is stories, and works of social
reconcile apparently sounded and worshippers are commentary, satire, biography, and
irreconcilable elements of race gathered together, the autobiography, and even including
and tradition. If ever the democracy of Islam is embodied two books on recreational war
opposition of the great societies five times a day when the games. He is now best remembered
of East and West is to be peasant and king kneel side by for his science fiction novels and is
replaced by cooperation, the side and proclaim: "God Alone often called a "father of science
mediation of Islam is an is Great." I have been struck fiction."
indispensable condition. In its over and over again by this
hands lies very largely the indivisible unity of Islam that  “The Islamic teachings have
solution of the problem with makes man instinctively a left great traditions for
which Europe is faced in its brother." equitable and gentle dealings
relation with East." and behavior, and inspire
[Lectures on "The Ideals of people with nobility and
[Whither Islam, London, 1932, p. Islam;" see Speeches And tolerance. These are human
379.] Writings Of Sarojini Naidu, teachings of the highest order
Madras, 1918, pp. 167-9] and at the same time
 "That his (Muhammad's) practicable. These teachings
reforms enhanced the status of Arnold J. Toynbee: brought into existence a society
women in general is universally in which hard-heartedness and
admitted." [1889-1975] British historian, collective oppression and
Lecturer at Oxford University. injustice were the least as
[Mohammedanism, London, compared with all other
1953, p. 33]  "The extinction of race
societies preceding it….Islam is
consciousness as between
replete with gentleness,
James A. Michener: Muslims is one of the
courtesy, and fraternity.”
outstanding achievements of
[1907-1997] Leading American Islam, and in the contemporary Karen Armstrong:
writer; recipient of honorary world there is, as it happens, a
doctorates in five fields from thirty crying need for the propagation [1944-] A British author and
leading universities and decorated of this Islamic virtue." commentator of Irish Catholic
with the Presidential Medal of descent known for her books on
freedom, America's highest civilian [Civilization On Trial, New comparative religion.
award. York, 1948, p. 205]
 “Islam is a religion of success.
 "No other religion in history Unlike Christianity, which has
spread so rapidly as Islam . . . as its main image, in the west at
The West has widely believed that
William Montgomery Watt:
least, a man dying in a
this surge of religion was made [1909-] Professor (Emeritus) of devastating, disgraceful,
possible by the sword. But no Arabic and Islamic Studies at the helpless death… Mohammed
modern scholar accepts that idea, University of Edinburgh. was not an apparent failure. He
and the Qur'an is explicit in was a dazzling success,
support of the freedom of  "I am not a Muslim in the politically as well as spiritually,
conscience." usual sense, though I hope I and Islam went from strength
am a "Muslim" as "one to strength to strength.”
[Islam - The Misunderstood surrendered to God," but I
Religion, Readers' Digest believe that embedded in the Leo Tolstoy:
(American Edition) May 1955] Qur'an and other expressions
of the Islamic vision are vast [1828-1910] he is best known for
Sarojini Naidu: stores of divine truth from the novels War and Peace (1869)
which I and other occidentals and Anna Karenina (1877), often
[1879-1949] A writer, poetess and
have still much to learn, and cited as pinnacles of realist fiction.
one of the most visible leaders of pre-
Independent India. President of the Islam is certainly a strong
 “The legislation of Quran will
Indian National Congress and the contender for the supplying of
spread all over the world,
first woman governor of free India. the basic framework of the one
because it agrees with the
religion of the future."
mind, logic and wisdom.”
 "Sense of justice is one of the
most wonderful ideals of Islam, [Islam And Christianity Today,
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