Eugen Weber on Linguistic Diversity and the Nation
“Like the report of 1863, Grégoire’s seems to have taken an optimistic view. Many of the provincial assemblies discussing the …
Category Archives: Quotes
Charles Taylor on the modern problem of Meaninglessness
‘The problem of the meaning of life is therefore on our agenda, however much we may jibe at this phrase, …
Megan H. Reid on the Nature of the Academy in Medieval Islam
‘Considering the number of hours that pious men and women spent awake at night in prayer, reciting the Qur’an in …
Hanna Mikhail on the use of Islamic Symbolism in the Age of Modernity
Present-day Muslims, in attempting to modernize their societies, depend greatly on the ideologies of the dominant West, but find it …
Melissa Lane: Socrates as god’s gift
In Plato’s version, by contrast, Socrates defends himself with attitude, along lines that are deliberately and dramatically different from the …
Melissa Lane: Greeks on Justice and Civilisation
“The fundamental political idea of justice can already be found in archaic [Greek] poetry… Setting the terms of right or …
Brendan Simms on the ‘Armed Missionaries’ of Freedom
“One way or the other, Robespierre’s warning that Europe would not welcome ‘armed missionaries’ was vindicated: the ‘reason’, ‘fraternity’, ‘equality’ …
Brendan Simms on the first stirrings of ‘Liberal Interventionism’
“The international turbulence of the late 1760s and 1770s strengthened interventionist sentiment in Europe. In the 1770s no fewer than …
Shaykh Shabrawi on the Path of the People (al-Qawm)
The path of the People [al-qawm] is ardour and effort. Those who earnestly expend their effort obtain everything that they …
Some of the Divine Injunctions related by Imam Abdallah Ibn Alawi Al-Haddad
‘We give here some Divine injunctions handed down as Holy Traditions [ahadith qudsiyah], and sound hadiths. The Messenger of God, …
