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Top 10 Pervez Hoodbhoy Quotes (2025 Update)

Pervez Hoodbhoy Quote: “Science may have transformed the world into a global village, but it has yet to teach the villagers to learn to talk with and understand each other.”

1. “Science may have transformed the world into a global village, but it has yet to teach the villagers to learn to talk with and understand each other.”

— Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Hoodbhoy Quote: “Science is the supreme expression of man’s rationality.”

2. “Science is the supreme expression of man’s rationality.”

— Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Hoodbhoy Quote: “In Waziristan people get really upset when there are no drone attacks. Their apprehension is that the US and Pakistani government might enter in an agreement to halt the attacks.”

3. “In Waziristan people get really upset when there are no drone attacks. Their apprehension is that the US and Pakistani government might enter in an agreement to halt the attacks.”

— Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Hoodbhoy Quote: “But it is only a mature society which can possess intellectual and religious tolerance, and which can provide basic liberties to its citizens.”

4. “But it is only a mature society which can possess intellectual and religious tolerance, and which can provide basic liberties to its citizens.”

— Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Hoodbhoy Quote: “A society oriented towards fatalism, or one in which an interventionist deity forms part of the matrix of causal connections, is bound to produce fewer individuals inclined to probe the unknown with the tools of science.”

5. “A society oriented towards fatalism, or one in which an interventionist deity forms part of the matrix of causal connections, is bound to produce fewer individuals inclined to probe the unknown with the tools of science.”

— Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Hoodbhoy Quote: “It is imperative to realize that Muslim culture is inextricably wedded to the past.”

6. “It is imperative to realize that Muslim culture is inextricably wedded to the past.”

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Pervez Hoodbhoy Quote: “Ibn Rushd’s writings were translated into Latin and Hebrew by European scholars. There soon appeared super-commentaries on his commentaries. Many of the writings exist only in these two languages, the original Arabic writings being long lost. This itself is a commentary on the extent to which Ibn Rushd, as a rationalist philosopher, was able to influence the mood of his times.”

7. “Ibn Rushd’s writings were translated into Latin and Hebrew by European scholars. There soon appeared super-commentaries on his commentaries. Many of the writings exist only in these two languages, the original Arabic writings being long lost. This itself is a commentary on the extent to which Ibn Rushd, as a rationalist philosopher, was able to influence the mood of his times.”

— Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Hoodbhoy Quote: “Fire causes burning, lightning causes thunder, winds cause waves, and gravity causes bodies to fall. Such connections between an effect and its cause form the cornerstone of scientific thinking, both modern and classical. But this notion of causality is one which is specifically rejected by Asharite doctrine, and the most articulate and effective opponent of physical causality was AI-Ghazzali.”

8. “Fire causes burning, lightning causes thunder, winds cause waves, and gravity causes bodies to fall. Such connections between an effect and its cause form the cornerstone of scientific thinking, both modern and classical. But this notion of causality is one which is specifically rejected by Asharite doctrine, and the most articulate and effective opponent of physical causality was AI-Ghazzali.”

— Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Hoodbhoy Quote: “It is somewhat paradoxical that AI-Ghazzali spearheaded the attack against free-thinkers and the proponents of logic, but in doing so had to use the weapon of his adversaries. Indeed, the stubborn ghost of Greek dialectics withstood exorcism by the greatest Asharite of all time.”

9. “It is somewhat paradoxical that AI-Ghazzali spearheaded the attack against free-thinkers and the proponents of logic, but in doing so had to use the weapon of his adversaries. Indeed, the stubborn ghost of Greek dialectics withstood exorcism by the greatest Asharite of all time.”

— Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Hoodbhoy Quote: “Muslims – who comprise one-fifth of all humanity – will continue to suffer an undignified and degraded existence if science, and particularly a rational approach to human problems, is considered alien to Islamic culture.”

10. “Muslims – who comprise one-fifth of all humanity – will continue to suffer an undignified and degraded existence if science, and particularly a rational approach to human problems, is considered alien to Islamic culture.”

— Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Hoodbhoy Quote: “Reform is not instantaneous, but proceeds by degrees. In contrast, the dogmatist dreams of reforming all of society in one holistic sweep and believes that he has in his possession a unique, unalterable blueprint. This quest for a utopia leads to authoritarianism, intolerance and violence because, once the end goal has been defined, no one is allowed to criticize or change it.”

11. “Reform is not instantaneous, but proceeds by degrees. In contrast, the dogmatist dreams of reforming all of society in one holistic sweep and believes that he has in his possession a unique, unalterable blueprint. This quest for a utopia leads to authoritarianism, intolerance and violence because, once the end goal has been defined, no one is allowed to criticize or change it.”

— Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Hoodbhoy Quote: “It is a sad commentary on the state of Muslim scholarship that Ibn Khaldun remained a virtual nonentity until he was discovered by Orientalists. Now that he has their stamp of recognition, many scholars – excepting Arab racialists and the extreme orthodox – have entered into a competition to see whose encomiums are the loudest.”

12. “It is a sad commentary on the state of Muslim scholarship that Ibn Khaldun remained a virtual nonentity until he was discovered by Orientalists. Now that he has their stamp of recognition, many scholars – excepting Arab racialists and the extreme orthodox – have entered into a competition to see whose encomiums are the loudest.”

— Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Hoodbhoy Quote: “The inability of the traditional system of education to respond adequately to a changing world may well have been the most critical factor which denied to Muslims the chance of spearheading the Scientific Revolution.”

13. “The inability of the traditional system of education to respond adequately to a changing world may well have been the most critical factor which denied to Muslims the chance of spearheading the Scientific Revolution.”

— Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Hoodbhoy Quote: “The great scholars of Islam were often endangered not by Mongol hordes or infidel Christians but, instead, by homegrown religious orthodoxy.”

14. “The great scholars of Islam were often endangered not by Mongol hordes or infidel Christians but, instead, by homegrown religious orthodoxy.”

— Pervez Hoodbhoy

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