Sydney Nettleton Fisher

He is a professor of history at Ohio University and the author of various studies in the affairs of eastern countries of Muslim majority. He is the author of The Middle East, a History, in which he discusses the efficient factors of the development of nations and events in those countries, with Islam being the first of them.

From The Middle East, a History:

The prettiest and weightiest merits

The Noble Qur’an (he argues) is a book of education and tutelage and what it contains exceeds obligations and rites. The merits to which it exhorts Muslims are among the prettiest and weightiest in the scale of manners. The guidance of the book sees itself in its proscriptions as well as in its commands.[1]