Toby Lester famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story about the religion's foundation...
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...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much of that body of work had been fabricated well after the establishment of Islam in order to lend outside support to Koranic mythology.... [T]he Iranian journalist and diplomat Ali Dashti...repeatedly took his fellow Muslims to task for not questioning the traditional accounts of Muhammad's life, much of which he called myth-making and miracle-mongering.
-- Toby Lester
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I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
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Be with Allah, You will find Allah with you.
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As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
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Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul
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The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
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To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.
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I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker
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For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.
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