Ocupation: Journalist
Life: July 2, 1900 - February 23, 1992
Birthday: July 2
Death: February 23
I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become more tolerant. Mind you, not toward Islam—only toward certain other Eastern cultures, which offer some sort of spiritual attraction to the spirit-hungry West and are, at the same time, too distant from the Western world-view to constitute any real challenge to its values.
source: Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.10, The Book Foundation
topic: Spiritual, Real, Views, Foreign Culture