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William Muir
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“The sword of Mahomet and the Coran are the most fatal enemies of civilization, liberty, and truth which the world has yet known.”
William Muir (1819–1905) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Life of Mahomet, Vol. IV (1861), p. 322
“The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the caliphate, but of the Mohammedan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.”
William Muir (1819–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neither their (the Muslims') tenets nor their practice will in any respect bear to come into competition with Christian, or even with Jewish morality. ... For instance, we call the Muslims chaste because they abstained from indiscriminate profligacy, and kept carefully within the bounds prescribed as licit by their Prophet. But those bounds besides the utmost freedom of divorce and change of wives, admitted an illimitable licence of cohabitation with 'all that the right hand of the believer might possess,' or, in other words, with any possible number of damsels he might choose to purchase, or receive in gift, or take captive in war.”
William Muir (1819–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source