Frasi di Karen Armstrong
15 1Karen Armstrong
Data di nascita: 14. Novembre 1944
Altri nomi: 凱倫·岩士唐, کارن آرمسترانق, Karen Armstrongová
Karen Armstrong è una saggista britannica, autrice di molti libri di religione comparata, ha scritto il bestseller History of God .
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scrittore, saggista e traduttore britannicoFrasi Karen Armstrong
„L'amore di Dio divenne ciò che distingueva il sufismo. I sufi erano probabilmente influenzati dagli asceti cristiani del Medio Oriente, ma rimasero legati alla tradizione musulmana; essi aspiravano a un'esperienza di Dio simile a quella di Muhammad quando aveva avuto le rivelazioni, ed erano ispirati dalla sua ascesa mistica al cielo, che rimase per loro un modello.“
— Karen Armstrong
p. 242
„Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.“
— Karen Armstrong
Context: At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. Some of them even said that the Europeans … were better Muslims than they themselves, because their modern society had enabled them to create a fairer and more just distribution of wealth, than was possible in their pre-modern climates, and that accorded more perfectly with the vision of the Quran.
Then there was the experience of colonialism under Britain and France, experiences like Suez, the Iranian revolution, Israel, and some people, not all by any means… have allowed this … these series of disasters to corrode into hatred. Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. … crucified, and that turned into victory. Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. But against the West, it's been able to make no headway, and this is as disturbing for Muslims as the discoveries of Darwin have been to some Christians. The Quran says that if you live according to the Quranic ideal, implementing justice in your society, then your society will prosper, because this is the way human beings are supposed to live. But whatever they do, they cannot seem to get Muslim history back on track, and this has led some, and only a minority, it must be said, to desperate conclusions.
