Islam is the first school of social thought that recognizes the masses as the basis, the fundamental and conscious factor in determining history and society not the elect as Nietzsche thought, not the aristocracy and nobility as Plato claimed, nor great personalities as Carlyle and Emerson believed, not those of pure blood as Alexis Carrel imagined, not the priests or the intellectuals, but the masses.


p. 49; as cited in: Ali Mirsepassi (2000) Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization, p. 126. - On the sociology of Islam: lectures. (1979)

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Islam is the first school of social thought that recognizes the masses as the basis, the fundamental and conscious factor in determining history and...

Islam is the first school of social thought that recognizes the masses as the basis, the fundamental and conscious factor in determining history and...

Islam is the first school of social thought that recognizes the masses as the basis, the fundamental and conscious factor in determining history and...

Islam is the first school of social thought that recognizes the masses as the basis, the fundamental and conscious factor in determining history and...