Mohammed Arkoun famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.
-- Mohammed Arkoun

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Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.
-- Mohammed Arkoun

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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.
If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart to break, then no-one can mend it but He, so always put your trust in Allah.
Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.
The only model to follow is pure Islam.
Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.
The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France. (2nd April 1945)
Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

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