Khabib Nurmagomedov on Lex Fridman Podcast (2026-08-12): recommend
“…That's the first word revealed in the Holy Quran.…”
Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, Fighting, Islam, Conor, Gaethje & Football | Lex Fridman Podcast #500
Khabib Nurmagomedov on Lex Fridman Podcast (2026-08-12): mention
“…I'm starting to study Arabic now, but I've been reading the Quran since I was a child.…”
Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, Fighting, Islam, Conor, Gaethje & Football | Lex Fridman Podcast #500
Anthony Kaldellis on Lex Fridman Podcast (2026-06-30): mention
“…The Quran doesn't say anything about running an empire.…”
Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires | Lex Fridman Podcast #498
Diarmaid Macculloch on Conversations with Tyler (2026-01-21): mention
“…Because the Quran allows that to happen?…”
Diarmaid MacCulloch on Christianity, Sex, and Unsettling Settled Facts (Ep. 268)
Diarmaid Macculloch on Conversations with Tyler (2026-01-21): mention
“…She appears more in the Holy Quran than she does in the Bible, of course…”
Diarmaid MacCulloch on Christianity, Sex, and Unsettling Settled Facts (Ep. 268)
Matti Friedman on EconTalk (2024-12-16): mention
“…Hamas leaders saying that the Quran says that the existence of a Jewish state is an abomination…”
Musa Al-Gharbi on Conversations with Tyler (2024-10-16): mention
“…At some point in this journey, I started reading the Quran, and I came to the conclusion that it was a prophetic work.…”
Musa al-Gharbi on Elite Wokeness, Islam, and Social Movements (Ep. 224)
Sam Harris on EconTalk (2024-07-29): mention
“…But what would have happened if I had been reading the Quran?…”
Sam Harris on EconTalk (2024-07-29): mention
“…if you honestly look at the Quran and the Hadith and the Biography of the Prophet…”
Benjamin Moser on Conversations with Tyler (2024-05-15): mention
“…one of the miracles of the Quran is that it has the perfection of its style…”
Benjamin Moser on the Dutch Masters, Brazil, and Cultural Icons (Ep. 212)
Omar Suleiman on Lex Fridman Podcast (2024-01-31): mention
“…The Quran being the last revelation to believe in the day of Judgment…”
Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam | Lex Fridman Podcast #411
Omar Suleiman on Lex Fridman Podcast (2024-01-31): mention
“…I’m reading the Quran for the first time…”
Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam | Lex Fridman Podcast #411
Omar Suleiman on Lex Fridman Podcast (2024-01-31): mention
“…if you were to take the verses of the Quran about violence and compare them…”
Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam | Lex Fridman Podcast #411
Omar Suleiman on Lex Fridman Podcast (2024-01-31): mention
“…as it says in the Quran that we do not distinguish between the prophets…”
Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam | Lex Fridman Podcast #411
Greg Lukianoff on Lex Fridman Podcast (2023-09-25): mention
“…Then, I read the Quran because, and I’m going to try to do the Book of Mormon.…”
Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #397
Mohammed el-Kurd on Lex Fridman Podcast (2023-07-24): mention
“…Sometimes Zionist will even say like, “Read the Quran, and blah, blah, blah.”…”
Tom Holland on Conversations with Tyler (2023-03-22): mention
“…The idea that you get in the Quran, very obviously, that this is literally the Word of God.…”
Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside (Ep. 174)
Reza Aslan on Conversations with Tyler (2022-10-19): mention
“…The Quran and the so-called Sunnah, which is this vast body…”
General Stanley McChrystal on The Tim Ferriss Show (2021-10-04): mention
“…they’d been taught the Quran and they memorized it…”
General Stanley McChrystal — Mastering Risk: A User’s Guide (#535)
Kwame Anthony Appiah on Conversations with Tyler (2019-07-31): mention
“…It refers to a passage in the Koran about commanding right and forbidding wrong.…”
Cory Booker on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-06-04): mention
“…I still have the Bhagava Gita, the Koran, the Torah, the Bible.…”
Kevin Kelly on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-06-01): recommend
“…I say the same thing about the Koran. Try to read the Sufi stuff.…”
Kevin Kelly – AI, Virtual Reality, and The Inevitable (#164)
Rabbi David Wolpe on Conversations with Tyler (2017-02-15): mention
“…The Koran is very unwilling to allow any sinfulness in its heroes.…”
Rabbi David Wolpe on Leadership, Religion, and Identity (Ep. 19 - Live at Sixth & I)
Yuval Harari on EconTalk (2015-10-19): mention
“…The answers are not in the Bible; they are not in the Quran; they are not in the Confucian Analects…”