Great Non-Muslims on Islam

Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1895 – 1971) known as H. A. R. Gibb was a Scottish historian on Orientalism. Gibb taught Arabic literature at the then School of Oriental Studies. During this time he was an editor of the Encyclopedia of Islam. It is baffling to note that how easily the non-muslims of the …

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A.M. Lothrop Stoddard (1883 – 1950) was an American historian, journalist, and political scientist. A.M. Lothrop Stoddard says: “Islam was in fact, the greatest revolution that has ever appeared in the world.” A.M.L. Stoddard further says: “The rise of Islam is perhaps the most amazing event in human history. Springing from a land and a …

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Bertrand Russell was a great British Philosopher, mathematician and social reformer of the 20th century, and a Nobel Prize winner in 1950. He campaigned against nuclear arms. Although Bertrand Russell in no way can be called as having favourable views about Islamic teacings and in reality he wasn’t even least sympathetic to Islam.  Bertrand Russell …

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William Montgomery Watt (1909 – 2006) was a Scottish historian, Orientalist, Anglican priest, and academic. He was Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Edinburgh. Montgomery Watt was one of the foremost non-Muslim interpreters of Islam in the west.  He has written numerous books on Islam including ‘Islam and the Integration of …

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Carlyle in his magnum opus ‘On Heroes and Hero- worship and the Heroic in History’ quoted Goethe, the natural philosopher and great statesman of Germany as saying: “Allaho Akbar, God is great and then also ‘Islam’, that we must submit to God. That our whole strength lies in resigned submission to Him. Whatsoever He does …

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The celebrated English writer Robert Briffault pays rich tributes to the teachings of the Holy Prophet of Islam, when he says: “The ideas of freedom for all human beings, of human brotherhood, of the equality of all men before the law of democratic government, by consultation and universal suffrage; the ideas that inspired the French …

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De Lacy Evans O’Leary (1872–1957) was a British Orientalist who lectured at the University of Bristol and wrote a number of books on the early history of Arabs and Copts. He says on Muhammad: “History makes it clear, however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point …

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Sir Thomas Walker Arnold (1864–1930) was a British orientalist and historian of Islamic art who taught at Aligarh Muslim University. He says in his book “The Preaching of Islam”: “Islam is a religion that is essentially rationalistic in the widest sense of this term considered etymologically and historically….” “The teachings of the Prophet, the Quran …

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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was the Emperor of France who dissolved the Roman Empire and became the ruler of the whole Continent of Europe. He was very much impressed by the universal personage of the Prophet of Islam, and considered him the great law giver of the world. Napoleon visited the Al-Azhar University in Egypt and discussed ‘Voltaire’s …

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