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“Here are two enormous worlds side by side; what's remarkable is how little notice they have taken of each other. If the Western and Islamic worlds were two individual human beings, we might see symptoms of repression here. We might ask, "What happened between these two? Were they lovers once? Is there some history of abuse?”

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Book:Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
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“Too often the achievements of the Islamic civilisation and its strong link to the Western civilisation are limited to scholarly works and academic journals. Moreover, many available works paints a stark picture of confrontation between civilisations when in reality was often one of exchange and mutual dependence.”

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Book:Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists
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“I’m remembering there’s a word in Russian, izgoy, that describes someone with a flaw that makes that person singularly unfit to perform his or her professional role. A blocked writer, I lascivious priest, a drunken chauffeur. As a screwed-up therapist,someone like me should not be working at all. Not yet. It is far too soon. And you can tell that. Bethany, with her Competence Scale, already has. But here I am. An izgoy.”

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Book:The Rapture
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