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“In the year of his accession, the Sultan felt the repression of the Miwdttis to be the first of his duties, and for a whole year he was occupied in overthrowing them and in scouring the jungles, which he effectually accomplished. Great numbers of Miwdttis were put to the sword.”
Ghiyas ud din Balban (1201–1287) said by 1287 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Noi crediamo che il diavolo è diventato cattivo non per predisposizione, ma per libera scelta.”
Papa Innocenzo III (1160–1216) said by 1216 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The virgin Marina of Bithynia was her father's only daughter. When her father entered the monastery, he changed his daughter's clothes so that she would look like a boy and not a girl, and he begged the abbot and the monks to accept his only child. They listened to his prayers, and everyone called him Brother Marino. He began to live with religious fervour and to show great obedience. (p. 446)”
Jacobus de Voragine (1228–1298) said by 1298 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quando prosperità mondane e piaceri ti arridono, non lasciarti incantare, non prenderne diletto; entrano in noi blandamente, ma quando li abbiamo dentro ci mordono come serpenti.”
Antonio di Padova (1195–1231) said by 1231 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].”
Shams Tabrizi (1185–1248) said by 1248 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[H]aec vocatur scientia experimentalis, quae negligit argumenta, quoniam non certificant, quantumcunque sint fortia, nisi simul adsit experientia conclusionis. Et ideo haec docet experiri conclusiones nobiles omnium scientiarum, quae in aliis scientiis aut probantur per argumenta, aut investigantur per experientias naturales et imperfectas...”
Roger Bacon (1220–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: OQHI, 43 as cited in: James J. Walsch (1911) "Science at the Medieval Universities" in: Popular Science, May 1911, p. 449
“The Jami Masjid of Badaun, also built by Iletmish is one of the largest mosques in India. Following the traditional courtyard plan, it also utilizes Hindu temple pillars. The entrance arches of the gateways leading into the courtyard of the Mosque presumably recall those in the great Mosques at Delhi and Ajmer…”
Iltutmish (1192–1236) said by 1236 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Badaun (Uttar Pradesh) Syed Mahmudul Hasan, Mosque Architecture of Pre-Mughal Bengal, Dacca (Bangladesh), 1979, p. 39
“Certamente l'insegnamento della pietà cristiana porterebbe nel mondo intero maggior frutto, se un vincolo più forte di carità unisse i ministri della parola di Dio. Perché, a dire il vero, ciò che diciamo o insegniamo è reso sospetto da questo soprattutto, che in noi segni evidenti rendono palese un certo lievito di odio.”
Thomas of Celano (1190–1260) said by 1260 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was known to his countrymen as the Nightingale, but his own sweet-sounding name of Bird's-meadow (Vogelweide) suggests even more directly the pure, true, flute-like strain which he poured into Europe’s choir of voices.”
Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) said by 1230 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Laurie Magnus A General Sketch of European Literature in the Centuries of Romance (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1918) pp. 27-28.
“Invano l'iniquo perseguita l'uomo retto, perché quanto più questi è combattuto tanto maggiore è il trionfo della sua fortezza. L'umiliazione, disse qualcuno, rende più intrepido il cuore generoso. (parte I, cap. V, § 11; § 338, p. 257)”
Tommaso da Celano (1190–1260) said by 1260 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I, 431 (tr. Helminski, 1990)
“I was in my youth and in the days of my intoxication extravagance and excitement that unveiling of the angelic world and the manifestation of the wonders of power took place in my heart, spirit, conscience and intellect.”
Ruzbihan Baqli (1128–1209) said by 1209 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Avendo chiesto i frati che insegnasse loro a pregare, egli rispose: «Quando pregate, dite il Pater noster, oppure: Ti adoriamo, o Cristo, in tutte le tue chiese che sono in tutto il mondo e ti benediciamo, perché per mezzo della tua santa croce hai redento il mondo». (p. 51)”
Bonaventura da Bagnoregio (1221–1274) said by 1274 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Permanent concentration upon the Divine Names in the retreat leads to mystical awareness.”
Najmuddin Kubra (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...the Sultan Jalaldin - valorous and brave, courageous and fearless like some immaterial being, superb, strong and an excellent fighter ..." 13th century Georgian Royal Annals.”
Jalal al-Din Mangburni (1199–1231) said by 1231 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chronicle of Hundred Years ([online text|https://archive.org/details/kartliscxovreba_201409/mode/2up]) Translated by Georgian National Academy of Sciences. Tbilisi. 2014. p.320
“In the intimacy of the One, Those souls are pure and inwardly naked, without images, without figures, As if liberated from time, uncreated, Freed from their limits in silent latitude”
Hadewijch (1200–1260) said by 1260 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[In 1206, Muhammad Ghauri marched to exterminate the recalcitrant Khokhar rebels who had established their sway in regions of Multan. The slaughter of the rebels was so thorough that none survived to light a fire.] ‘Much spoils in slaves and weapons, beyond all enumerations, fell into the possession of the victors’.”
Hasan Nizami (died 1217) said by 1217 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nizami quoted in M.A. Khan , Islamic Jihad: A legacy of forced conversion, imperialism and slavery (2011), quoting quoting Elliot & Dawson, Vol. II
“Formerly the Church with its prelates of old time, was golden in wisdom, silver in cleanness of life, brazen in eloquence, which are three things needful to a preacher; that is, brightness of wisdom, cleanness of life, and sonorousness of eloquence. But of the feet, the last, that is the modern prelates, part is iron through their hardness of heart, and part is clay by their carnal luxury.”
John Peckham (1227–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: De Oculo Morali quoted in Georg Herzfeld (ed.) An Old English Martyrology (1900)
“Ira è il quarto vizîo che nasce all'animo della mala volontà; e questo fa l'animo disordinato e vizîoso d'una súbita tempesta e furore di nuocere altrui. E comettesi questo peccato per sette vie, e ha catuna il suo nome per meglio tenelle a memoria. E quelli sono i vizî che nascono d'Ira, e sono cosí appellati: Odio, Discordia, Ressa, Ingiuria, Malizia, Nequizia, Furore.”
Bono Giamboni (died 1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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…
“Fear is a whip of God for the undisciplined devotee. When the fear of God enters into the heart, it turns the flask of the heart into pieces.”
Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1236) said by 1236 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“L'Amato mio è trino, benché Uno, | poiché in essenza le persone sono | una Persona sola. (XII, s. 4; 2008)”
Ibn Arabi (1165–1240) said by 1240 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eraclito ha detto che, se la felicità risiedesse nei piaceri corporali, diremmo che i buoi sono felici quando hanno dei ceci da mangiare.”
Alberto Magno (1200–1280) said by 1280 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Le partenze e gli arrivi di navi che vanno in Tunisia e vengono da questo paese sono pressappoco continue e le navi degli Italiani che veleggiano verso la costa africana sono solite di visitare prima Trapani. (p. 100)”
Ibn Jubayr (1145–1217) said by 1217 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source