Quotations on Islamic Civilization
2013 - 1434
Napoleón Bonaparte
Quoted in Christian Cherfils, ‘Bonaparte et Islam,’ Pedone Ed., Paris,France, 1914, pp. 105, 125.
- Original References: “Correspondance de Napoléon IerTome V pièce n° 4287 du 17/07/1799...”
“Moses has revealed the existence of God to hisnation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent...
“Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries afterJesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, ofMoses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed thetranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father,the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one Godwho had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry...
“I hope the time is not far off when I shall be ableto unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish auniform regime based on the principles of Quran which alone are true and whichalone can lead men to happiness.”
Sir George Bernard Shaw
‘The Genuine Islam,’ Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.
“If any religion had the chance of ruling overEngland, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”
“I have always held the religion of Muhammad in highestimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion whichappears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase ofexistence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - thewonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must becalled the Savior of Humanity.”
“I believe that if a man like him were to assume thedictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in away that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesiedabout the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe oftomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.”
Bertrand Russel
History of Western Philosophy,’ London, 1948, p. 419.
“Our use of phrase ‘The Dark ages’ to cover the periodfrom 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe...
“From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization ofIslam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost tocivilization, but quite the contrary...
“To us it seems that West-European civilization iscivilization, but this is a narrow view.”
H.G. Wells
“The Islamic teachings have left great traditions forequitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobilityand tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the sametime practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in whichhard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least ascompared with all other societies preceding it....Islam is replete withgentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.”
Dr. William Draper
‘History of Intellectual Development of Europe’
“During the period of the Caliphs the learned men ofthe Christians and the Jews were not only held in great esteem but wereappointed to posts of great responsibility, and were promoted to the highranking job in the government....He (Caliph Haroon Rasheed) never considered towhich country a learned person belonged nor his faith and belief, but only hi***cellence in the field of learning.”
Thomas Carlyle
‘Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History,’ Lecture 2, Friday,8th May 1840.
“As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us,Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can...
“When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof wasof that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet’s (Muhammad’s)ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was noproof!...
“A poor, hard-toiling, ill-provided man; careless ofwhat vulgar men toil for. Not a bad man, I should say; Something better in himthan hunger of any sort, -- or these wild Arab men, fighting and jostlingthree-and-twenty years at his hand, in close contact with him always, would notrevered him so! They were wild men bursting ever and anon into quarrel, into allkinds of fierce sincerity; without right worth and manhood, no man could havecommanded them. They called him prophet you say? Why he stood there face toface with them; bare, not enshrined in any mystery; visibly clouting his owncloak, cobbling his own shoes; fighting, counselling, ordering in the midst ofthem: they must have seen what kind of man he was, let him be called what youlike! No emperor with his tiaras was obeyed as this man in a cloak of his ownclouting. During three-and-twenty years of rough actual trial. I find somethingof a veritable Hero necessary for that, of itself...
“These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, -is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what prove***plosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Greatman was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him likefuel, and then they too would flame...”
Phillip Hitti
‘Short History of the Arabs.’
“During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no otherpeople made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, ifwe take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and notmerely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was thelanguage of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of thecivilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the 9th to the 12thcentury there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religious,astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other humantongue.”
Carra de Vaux
‘The Philosophers of Islam,’ Paris, 1921.
“Finally how can one forget that at the same time theMogul Empire of India (1526-1857 C.E.) was giving the world the Taj Mahal(completed in 1648 C.E.) the architectural beauty of which has never beensurpassed, and the ‘Akbar Nameh’ of Abul Fazl:
‘That extraordinary work full of life ideas andlearning where every aspect of life is examined listed and classified, andwhere progress continually dazzles the eye, is a document of which Orientalcivilization may justly be proud. The men whose genius finds its expression inthis book were far in advance of their age in the practical art of government,and they were perhaps in advance of it in their speculations about religiousphilosophy. Those poets those philosophers knew how to deal with the world ormatter. They observe, classify, calculate and experiment. All the ideas thatoccur to them are tested against facts. They express them with eloquence butthey also support them with statistics.’
...the principles of tolerance, justice and humanitywhich prevailed during the long reign of Akbar.”
Marcel Clerget
‘La Turquie, Passe et Present,’ Paris, 1938.
“Many proofs of high cultural level of the OttomanEmpire during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent are to be found in thedevelopment of science and law; in the flowering of literary works in Arabic,Persian and Turkish; in the contemporary monuments in Istanbul, Bursa, andEdirne; in the boom in luxury industries; in the sumptuous life of the courtand high dignitaries, and last but not least in its religious tolerance. Allthe various influences - notably Turkish, Byzantine and Italian mingle togetherand help to make this the most brilliant epoch of the Ottomans.”
Michael the Elder (Great)
Quoted in ‘Michael the Elder, Chronique de Michael Syrien, PatriarcheJacobite d’ Antioche,’ J.B. Chabot, Editor, Vol. II, Paris, 1901.
“This is why the God of vengeance, who alone isall-powerful, and changes the empire of mortals as He will, giving it towhomsoever He will, and uplifting the humble beholding the wickedness of theRomans who throughout their dominions, cruelly plundered our churches and ourmonasteries and condemned us without pity, brought from the region of the souththe sons of Ishmael, to deliver us through them from the hands of the Romans. Andif in truth we have suffered some loss, because the Catholic churches, that hadbeen taken away from us and given to the Chalcedonians, remained in theirpossession; for when the cities submitted to the Arabs, they assigned to eachdenomination the churches which they found it to be in possession of (and atthat time the great churches of Emessa and that of Harran had been taken awayfrom us); nevertheless it was no slight advantage for us to be delivered fromthe cruelty of the Romans, their wickedness, their wrath and cruel zeal againstus, and to find ourselves at people. (Michael the Elder, Jacobite Patriarch ofAntioch wrote this text in the latter part of the twelfth century, after fivecenturies of Muslim rule in that region. Click here for a relevantdocument sent to the monks of St. Catherine Monastery in Mt. Sinai, 628 C.E.)
Sir John Bagot Glubb
“Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma’mun’s period of rule (813 - 833C.E.) may be considered the ‘golden age’ of science and learning. He had alwaysbeen devoted to books and to learned pursuits. His brilliant mind wasinterested in every form of intellectual activity. Not only poetry but alsophilosophy, theology, astronomy, medicine and law all occupied his time.”
“By Mamun’s time medical schools were extremely activein Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during theCaliphate of Haroon-ar-Rashid. As the system developed, physicians and surgeonswere appointed who gave lectures to medical students and issued diplomas tothose who were considered qualified to practice. The first hospital in Egyptwas opened in 872 AD and thereafter public hospitals sprang up all over theempire from Spain and the Maghrib to Persia.”
On the Holocaust of Baghdad (1258 C.E.) Perpetrated by Hulagu
“The city was systematically looted, destroyed andburnt. Eight hundred thousand persons are said to have been killed. The KhalifMustasim was sewn up in a sack and trampled to death under the feet of Mongolhorses.
“For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city ofpalaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals werethe most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble anda stench of decaying human flesh.”
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2013 - 1434
Napoleón Bonaparte
Quoted in Christian Cherfils, ‘Bonaparte et Islam,’ Pedone Ed., Paris,France, 1914, pp. 105, 125.
- Original References: “Correspondance de Napoléon IerTome V pièce n° 4287 du 17/07/1799...”
“Moses has revealed the existence of God to hisnation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent...
“Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries afterJesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, ofMoses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed thetranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father,the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one Godwho had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry...
“I hope the time is not far off when I shall be ableto unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish auniform regime based on the principles of Quran which alone are true and whichalone can lead men to happiness.”
Sir George Bernard Shaw
‘The Genuine Islam,’ Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.
“If any religion had the chance of ruling overEngland, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”
“I have always held the religion of Muhammad in highestimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion whichappears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase ofexistence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - thewonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must becalled the Savior of Humanity.”
“I believe that if a man like him were to assume thedictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in away that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesiedabout the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe oftomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.”
Bertrand Russel
History of Western Philosophy,’ London, 1948, p. 419.
“Our use of phrase ‘The Dark ages’ to cover the periodfrom 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe...
“From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization ofIslam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost tocivilization, but quite the contrary...
“To us it seems that West-European civilization iscivilization, but this is a narrow view.”
H.G. Wells
“The Islamic teachings have left great traditions forequitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobilityand tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the sametime practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in whichhard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least ascompared with all other societies preceding it....Islam is replete withgentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.”
Dr. William Draper
‘History of Intellectual Development of Europe’
“During the period of the Caliphs the learned men ofthe Christians and the Jews were not only held in great esteem but wereappointed to posts of great responsibility, and were promoted to the highranking job in the government....He (Caliph Haroon Rasheed) never considered towhich country a learned person belonged nor his faith and belief, but only hi***cellence in the field of learning.”
Thomas Carlyle
‘Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History,’ Lecture 2, Friday,8th May 1840.
“As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us,Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can...
“When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof wasof that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet’s (Muhammad’s)ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was noproof!...
“A poor, hard-toiling, ill-provided man; careless ofwhat vulgar men toil for. Not a bad man, I should say; Something better in himthan hunger of any sort, -- or these wild Arab men, fighting and jostlingthree-and-twenty years at his hand, in close contact with him always, would notrevered him so! They were wild men bursting ever and anon into quarrel, into allkinds of fierce sincerity; without right worth and manhood, no man could havecommanded them. They called him prophet you say? Why he stood there face toface with them; bare, not enshrined in any mystery; visibly clouting his owncloak, cobbling his own shoes; fighting, counselling, ordering in the midst ofthem: they must have seen what kind of man he was, let him be called what youlike! No emperor with his tiaras was obeyed as this man in a cloak of his ownclouting. During three-and-twenty years of rough actual trial. I find somethingof a veritable Hero necessary for that, of itself...
“These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, -is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what prove***plosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Greatman was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him likefuel, and then they too would flame...”
Phillip Hitti
‘Short History of the Arabs.’
“During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no otherpeople made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, ifwe take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and notmerely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was thelanguage of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of thecivilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the 9th to the 12thcentury there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religious,astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other humantongue.”
Carra de Vaux
‘The Philosophers of Islam,’ Paris, 1921.
“Finally how can one forget that at the same time theMogul Empire of India (1526-1857 C.E.) was giving the world the Taj Mahal(completed in 1648 C.E.) the architectural beauty of which has never beensurpassed, and the ‘Akbar Nameh’ of Abul Fazl:
‘That extraordinary work full of life ideas andlearning where every aspect of life is examined listed and classified, andwhere progress continually dazzles the eye, is a document of which Orientalcivilization may justly be proud. The men whose genius finds its expression inthis book were far in advance of their age in the practical art of government,and they were perhaps in advance of it in their speculations about religiousphilosophy. Those poets those philosophers knew how to deal with the world ormatter. They observe, classify, calculate and experiment. All the ideas thatoccur to them are tested against facts. They express them with eloquence butthey also support them with statistics.’
...the principles of tolerance, justice and humanitywhich prevailed during the long reign of Akbar.”
Marcel Clerget
‘La Turquie, Passe et Present,’ Paris, 1938.
“Many proofs of high cultural level of the OttomanEmpire during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent are to be found in thedevelopment of science and law; in the flowering of literary works in Arabic,Persian and Turkish; in the contemporary monuments in Istanbul, Bursa, andEdirne; in the boom in luxury industries; in the sumptuous life of the courtand high dignitaries, and last but not least in its religious tolerance. Allthe various influences - notably Turkish, Byzantine and Italian mingle togetherand help to make this the most brilliant epoch of the Ottomans.”
Michael the Elder (Great)
Quoted in ‘Michael the Elder, Chronique de Michael Syrien, PatriarcheJacobite d’ Antioche,’ J.B. Chabot, Editor, Vol. II, Paris, 1901.
“This is why the God of vengeance, who alone isall-powerful, and changes the empire of mortals as He will, giving it towhomsoever He will, and uplifting the humble beholding the wickedness of theRomans who throughout their dominions, cruelly plundered our churches and ourmonasteries and condemned us without pity, brought from the region of the souththe sons of Ishmael, to deliver us through them from the hands of the Romans. Andif in truth we have suffered some loss, because the Catholic churches, that hadbeen taken away from us and given to the Chalcedonians, remained in theirpossession; for when the cities submitted to the Arabs, they assigned to eachdenomination the churches which they found it to be in possession of (and atthat time the great churches of Emessa and that of Harran had been taken awayfrom us); nevertheless it was no slight advantage for us to be delivered fromthe cruelty of the Romans, their wickedness, their wrath and cruel zeal againstus, and to find ourselves at people. (Michael the Elder, Jacobite Patriarch ofAntioch wrote this text in the latter part of the twelfth century, after fivecenturies of Muslim rule in that region. Click here for a relevantdocument sent to the monks of St. Catherine Monastery in Mt. Sinai, 628 C.E.)
Sir John Bagot Glubb
“Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma’mun’s period of rule (813 - 833C.E.) may be considered the ‘golden age’ of science and learning. He had alwaysbeen devoted to books and to learned pursuits. His brilliant mind wasinterested in every form of intellectual activity. Not only poetry but alsophilosophy, theology, astronomy, medicine and law all occupied his time.”
“By Mamun’s time medical schools were extremely activein Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during theCaliphate of Haroon-ar-Rashid. As the system developed, physicians and surgeonswere appointed who gave lectures to medical students and issued diplomas tothose who were considered qualified to practice. The first hospital in Egyptwas opened in 872 AD and thereafter public hospitals sprang up all over theempire from Spain and the Maghrib to Persia.”
On the Holocaust of Baghdad (1258 C.E.) Perpetrated by Hulagu
“The city was systematically looted, destroyed andburnt. Eight hundred thousand persons are said to have been killed. The KhalifMustasim was sewn up in a sack and trampled to death under the feet of Mongolhorses.
“For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city ofpalaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals werethe most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble anda stench of decaying human flesh.”
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