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Islam and The Quran in the Prominent Western Thinkers' Viewpoints - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Islam and The Quran in the Prominent Western Thinkers’ Viewpoints 2022-12-19 442 Views Islam , Orientalists , The Holy Quran Prominent and effective people (Religious, Politicians, Thinkers and etc) throughout history have always been stated by their fans and enemies.

One of the perfect ways to know such people is to listen to their enemies or non-believers’ statements concerning them. The also was one of those prominent people stated by lots of non-believing scholars and thinkers. It is clear that such opinions give readers a great knowledge of the to researchers and a perfect motivation to them to study the Prophet’s history, religion, Holy Book and sayings.

Contents ABOUT ISLAM ABOUT THE QUR’AN The present work aims to present a great introduction to the Prophet, Islam and The Quran from viewpoint of prominent western scholars and thinkers. It is unfortunate that the Christian West instead of sincerely trying to understand the phenomenal success of Islam has considered it a rival religion. During the centuries of the crusades, this trend gained much force and impetus and a huge amount of literature was produced to tarnish the image of Islam.

Truth needs no advocates to plead on its behalf. But the prolonged malicious propaganda against Islam has created great confusion even in the minds of some free and objective thinkers. But Islam has begun to unfold its genuineness to the modern scholars whose bold and objective observations on Islam belie all the charges levelled against it by the so-called unbiased orientalists.

The following are some observations on Islam and the Qur’an by well-acknowledged non-Muslim Western scholars and thinkers of modern times which we hope would contribute to initiating an objective evaluation of the Islamic faith.

ABOUT ISLAM “I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am ‘Muslim’ as ‘one surrendered to God’, but I believe that embedded in the Qur’an and other expressions of the Islamic vision are vast stores of divine truth from which I and other occidentals have still much to learn, and Islam is certainly a strong contender for the supplying of the basic framework of the one religion of the future.” W. Montgomery Watt “Islam and Christianity Today”, London, 1983, page IX.

“I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality.