Why I am not a Muslim /

Ibn Warraq,

Why I am not a Muslim / [print] by Ibn Warraq. - Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, (c)1995. - xvi, 402 pages ; 24 cm.



The Rushdie affair -- The origins of Islam -- The problem of sources -- Muhammad and his message -- The Koran -- The totalitarian nature of Islam -- Is Islam compatible with democracy and human rights? -- Arab imperialism, Islamic colonialism -- The Arab conquests and the position of non-Muslim subjects -- Heretics and heterodoxy, atheism and freethought, reason and revelation -- Greek philosophy and science and their influence on Islam -- Sufism or Islamic mysticism -- Al-Ma'arri -- Women and Islam -- Taboos: wine, pigs, and homosexuality -- Final assessment of Muhammad -- Islam in the West.



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Islam--Controversial literature.

BP169 BP169.I13.W495 1995