What Non-Muslims Say About Islam p.8

Edward Gibbon

(1737-1794) Considered the greatest British historian of his time.

q  "'I believe in One God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol; the honours of the prophet have never transgressed the measure of human virtue, and his living precepts have restrained the gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion."

[History Of The Saracen Empire, London, 1870, p. 54.]

q  "More pure than the system of Zoroaster, more liberal than the law of Moses, the religion of Mahomet might seem less inconsistent with reason than the creed of mystery and superstition which, in the seventh century, disgraced the simplicity of the gospels."

[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 5. p. 487]