Ashraf Mansour

"When I returned to Cairo, I would ideally have liked to have taken the University of Ulm with me."

"The intensive exchange of information between the 40 scientists and the way in which research methods and experiments were very closely linked with theoretical models really impressed me"

"If we want to improve the current conditions of Muslims, we must first liberate them from the men of religion."

"The intellectual, social and political context is affected by the deep impregnation of societies by Salafist currents which have succeeded, even partially, to suppress the recourse to common sense and dialogue.."

"Rising extremism can only be fought by reviving Islamic philosophy and modernist thinking."

"Every religious institution will strive to deform the image of religion."

"This is not true of Islam only but of Judaism and Christianity."

"Religion, in itself, does not require an institution, for it is a very personal relation between man and God."