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“Kutbn-d din built the Jami Masjid at De1hi, and “adorned it with the stones and gold obtained from the temples which had been demolished by elephants,” and covered it with “inscriptions in Toghra, containing the divine commands.”
Qutb al-Din Aibak (1150–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hasan Nizami in Elliot and Dowson, vol., II, p., 222 quoted from Jain, M. (editor) (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts. New Delhi: Ocean Books. Volume II Chapter 5
“The ministering Saint, fresh from the poor of Christ.”
Elizabeth of Hungary (1207–1231) said by 1231 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Charles Kingsley, The Saint's Tragedy (1848), act 2, sc. 4 (Guta)
“This temple of Somnãt was built upon fifty-six pillars of teak wood covered with lead. The idol itself was in a chamber… Yamînu’d daula seized it, part of it he burnt, and part of it he carried away with him to Ghaznî, where he made it a step at the entrance of the Jãmi‘ masjid…”
Ibn al-Athir (1160–1233) first seen 1030 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ibn al-Athir The Complete History, Sultãn Mahmûd of Ghazni (AD 997-1030) Somnath (Gujarat) Elliot and Dowson, Vol. II. pp. 469-71
“In the state of elevation, the mystic may be able to read heavenly books in languages and characters previously unknown to him and learn the heavenly names of things and beings in including his own eternal name which is different from his wordly name.”
Najmuddin Kubra (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Muhammad Kasim, ascertaining that large offerings were made to the idol, and wishing to add to his resources by those means, left it uninjured, but in order to show his horror of Indian superstition, he attached a piece of cow's flesh to its neck, by which he was able to gratify his avarice and malignity at the same time.”
Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203–1283) said by 1283 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Multan (Punjab). Zakariya bin Muhammad (al-Kazwini): Ãsaru’l-Bilad in Elliot and Dowson, Vol. I : Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. pp. 470.
“The consideration of lines, angles and figures is of the greatest utility since it is impossible for natural philosophy to be known without them... All causes of natural effects have to be given through lines, angles and figures, for otherwise it is impossible for the reason why (propter quid) to be known in them.”
Robert Grosseteste (1168–1253) said by 1253 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: De Lineas, Anguilis et Figuris (On Lines, Angles and Figures) as quoted in Neil Lewis, "Robert Grosseteste" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2007, 2013) citing Baur, Ludwig (ed.) Die Philosophischen Werke des Robert…
“Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo.”
Walter Map (1140–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Distinction 4, Chapter 5 (tr. M. R. James, 1923)
“My posterity has been snatched from me...The young king and the Count of Britanny sleep in dust. Their unhappy mother is forced to live on, ceaselessly tormented by their memory...I have lost the staff of my age, the light of my eyes.”
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124–1204) first seen 1193 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Pope Celestine III (1193), in Amy Kelly, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings (1950), ch. 30
“As Cain was a wanderer and an outcast, not to be killed by anyone but marked with the sign of fear on his forehead, so the Jews ... against whom the voice of the blood of Christ cries out ... although they are not to be killed they must always be dispersed as wanderers upon the face of the earth.”
Pope Innocent III (1160–1216) said by 1216 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Migne, Patrologia, CCXV, 1291. See The Talmud Unmasked by J. B. Pranaitis, p. 89
“I swam in the primordial and ultimate oceans, in eternity and subsistence, and I discovered the unveiling of the Essence and Attributes which deaf stones and lofty mountains cannot endure.”
Ruzbihan Baqli (1128–1209) said by 1209 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Detachment from worldly things is the most essential qualification required for a true dervish. His separation from everything, including his own self is the only way for the realization of kingship with God.”
Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1236) said by 1236 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Farid, time was when these frail thighs scoured over desert and hill; Now, feeble with age even the prayer-jug looks as though lying miles away.”
Baba Farid (1175–1265) said by 1265 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Journey of the Mind into God (Itinerarium mentis in Deum), Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993.”
Bonaventure (1221–1274) said by 1274 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.”
Dōgen (1200–1253) said by 1253 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Officium officialium, quorum te numero aggregasti, hodie est, jura confundere, suscitare lites, transactiones rescindere, innectere dilationes, suprimere veritatem, fovere mendacium, quaestum sequi, aeqitatem vendere, inhiare exactionibus, versutias concinnare.”
Peter of Blois (1120–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter 25, to the Judicial Vicar of the Bishop of Chartres, in J. A. Giles (ed.) Petri blesensis bathoniensis archidiaconi opera omnia (Oxonii: J. H. Parker, 1846-7) vol. 1, p. 91; translation from Walter Bower and D. E…
“Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.”
Albertus Magnus (1200–1280) said by 1280 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Albertus Magnus in: R.C. Bless (1996) Discovering the cosmos. p. 686.
“Light from a concave luminous body is received most powerfully at the centre. The reason for this is that, for every point of a concave body, perpendicular rays, which are stronger than others, converge in the centre. Therefore the virtues of celestial bodies are incident most powerfully in and near the centre of the world.”
John Peckham (1227–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Perspectiva communis as quoted in J. D. North, Stars, Mind and Fate: Essays in Ancient and Mediaeval Cosmology (1989) citing D.C. Lindberg, John Pecham and the Science of Optics: Perspectiva communis (1970) p.99
“He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cup-bearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgment.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the administration of justice he was inflexible, showing no favour to his brethren or children, to his associates or attendants.”
Ghiyas ud din Balban (1201–1287) said by 1287 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Nasr Eddin a perdu son âne. Au lieu de le chercher, il parcourt la ville en rendant grâces à Allah.] — Comment se fait-il, Nasr Eddin, que tu rendes grâces à Allah pour la perte de ton âne ? Ne vaudrait-il pas mieux implorer Son aide ? — Décidément, vous ne comprenez rien ! Je rends grâces à Allah de n'avoir pas été sur le dos de mon âne quand il s'est égaré.”
Nasr Eddin Hodja (1208–1284) said by 1284 at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou all Creation art, all we behold, but Thou, The soul within the body lies concealed, And Thou dost hide Thyself within the soul, O soul in soul! Myst'ry in myst'ry hid! Before all wert Thou, and are more than all!”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Lucy M. J. Garnett, Mysticism and Magic in Turkey (1912), p. 49
“Ûf einem grüenen achmardî truoc si den wunsch von pardîs, bêde wurzeln unde rîs. daz was ein dinc, daz hiez der Grâl, erden wunsches überwal. Repanse de schoy si hiez, die sich der grâl tragen liez. der grâl was von sölher art: wol muoser kiusche sîn bewart, die sîn ze rehte solde pflegn: die muose valsches sich bewegn.”
Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170–1220) said by 1220 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My heart was never deprived of science, There are little of the mysteries that I did not understand. For 72 years I thought night and day, Yet I came to know that nothing is to be known.”
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1150–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tighten to nothing the circle that is the world's things Then the Naked circle can grow wide, enlarging, embracing all”
Hadewijch (1200–1260) said by 1260 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source