When Said's Orientalism hit the streets in 1978, it made waves in academic and political circles that still reverberate. Ibn Warraq, a scholar of Islam but not a believer, challenges both specific arg
We, in the West in general, and the United States in particular, have witnessed over the last twenty years a slow erosion of our civilizational self-confidence. Under the influence of intellectuals an
"Ibn Warraq's new collection is charming, witty, erudite, diverse, intellectually magnificent, and is definitely the 'go-to' work for all questions about what the Koran really says and what Koranic cr
The acclaimed author of Defending the West addresses the history, linguistics and religious implications of the different variations of the Koran circulating in the Muslim world, in a book that includ
Centering on the pioneering work of Christoph Luxenberg, this anthology of scholarly yet accessible studies of the Koran makes a convincing case that Islam's holy book borrowed heavily from Christian
"For anyone with an interest in the early history of Islam, this erudite anthology will prove to be informative and enlightening. Scholars have long known that the text of the Koran shows evidence of
An anthology of essays on Islam's sacred text, the Koran, dispels the notion that the text is error free and cannot be evaluated, with essays that attempt to remedy these deficiencies and deepen under
Warraq, best known as the author of Why I Am Not a Muslim , assembles 15 studies applying western standards of history to the Prophet and the origins of Islam, ranging from the early 19th century to
Just as anti-communists were the darlings of the literary market place after the fall of the Soviet Union and Berlin Wall, so now anti- Muslims take their moment in the sun. The 37 accounts here are a
Scholars, most from Europe and the US but some from Islamic countries, present primary and secondary material on the theory and practice of jihad and the treatment of non-Muslims in conquered territor
This book reveals how, for well over a millennium and across three continents - Asia, Africa, and Europe - non-Muslims who were vanquished by jihad wars became forced tributaries (called dhimmi in Ara
