The Islamic Enlightenment Quotes

“since ‘nothing can be begun with certainty, it’s better we begin with doubt’.”
― Christopher De Bellaigue, The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times

“the Brotherhood was not a throwback to the past but a reflection of its modern rivals, with attributes that would allow it to take on such ideologies and defeat them.”
― Christopher De Bellaigue, The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times

“The historical point that needs to be made here is that Shia Islam and Arab culture were no longer being seen as contributory to the national sense, but inimical to it.”
― Christopher De Bellaigue, The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times

“Jamal al-Din embodied the use of Islam as a worldwide ideology of resistance against Western imperialism, knitting the Islamic heartlands together in a way that today seems impossible. He was the godfather of universal, modern Islamism.”
― Christopher De Bellaigue, The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times

“Even those who were ignorant of the word of God were not entirely deprived of divine light,”
― Christopher De Bellaigue, The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times

“The first constitutional monarchy in the Muslim world was established in Tunis in 1861.”
― Christopher De Bellaigue, The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times