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Title: The Quest for the Historical Muhammad by Ibn Warraq, Ibn Warraq ISBN: 1-57392-787-2 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.23 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Choose Your History: Heroic, Antiquarian, or Critical
Comment: "A religion for example which, under the rule of pure justice, is to be transformed into historical knowledge, a religion which is to be known in a scientific way, will at the end of this path also be annihilated. The reason is that the historical audit always brings to light so much that is false, crude, inhuman, absurd, violent, that the attitude of pious illusion, in which alone all that wants to live can live, is necessarily dispelled: only with love, however, only surrounded by the shadow of the illusion of love, can man create, that is, only with an unconditional faith in something perfect and righteous. Each man who is forced no longer to love unconditionally has had the root of his strength cut off: he must wither, that is, become dishonest."
--Nietzsche, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
Muslims who reject critical thinking about Islam's origins and the Quest for the Historical Muhammad know this in their bones.
Ibn Warraq is a brave and honest man.
Rating: 1
Summary: Another Angle
Comment: See this subject from another angle.
Try this web site.
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Rating: 4
Summary: Not for those with a casual interest
Comment: This book is heavy sledding for those of us who aren't up on our ibns and isnads. The contributors are obviously learned and well-respected scholars and the essays are well-written, but it's a book for those who have more background in the subject than I. For those who just want a readable and even-handed account of the life of Muhammad, I recommend _Muhammad_ by Maxime Rodinson, an author referenced by Ibn Warraq in the volume under review.
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Title: What the Koran Really Says: Language, Text, and Commentary by Ibn Warraq, Ibn Warraq ISBN: 157392945X Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $36.00 |
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Title: Why I Am Not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq ISBN: 0879759844 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam's Holy Book by Ibn Warraq ISBN: 157392198X Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $36.00 |
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Title: Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out by Ibn Warraq, Ibn Warraq ISBN: 1591020689 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith by Robert Spencer, David Pryce-Jones ISBN: 1893554589 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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