"Thus did I receive, through the singing of these various hymns and the moral education that accompanied them, not only a religious, but a political schooling of sorts. For though the intertwining of m..."
- Jean Said Makdisi
"I had been brought up to be something of an intellectual, but there seemed at the time no connection between my newly formed ideas and the world to which I had returned. Indeed, I did not even recogni..."
"Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?"