Historical Role Of ISLAM

Extracts from “Historical Role of Islam”

“Composed by a man of practically no eduaction, the Koran, natuarally, is not a work of any intellectual standard. It is full of crude ideas and fantastic speculations….Without the severity of its ideology, Islam could not claim the historic role and credibly as it did…The current notion of the bigotry and fanaticism of Islam loses all historical authenticity when it is known that the men of learning so highly appreciated by the successors of the Prophet, were mostly devoid of any religious fervour, not a few of them holding views frankly heretical; and the general burden of their teachings was the assserttion of the reason of man as the only standard of truth.”