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1675:, 22 January 1996 pg1 "Ibn Warraq brings a scholarly sledge-hammer to the task of demolishing Islam. Writing a polemic against Islam, especially for an author of Muslim birth, is an act so incendiary that the author must write under a pseudonym; not to do so would be an act of suicide. And what does Ibn Warraq have to show for this act of unheard-of defiance? A well-researched and quite brilliant, if somewhat disorganized, indictment of one of the world's great religions. While the author disclaims any pretense to originality, he has read widely enough to write an essay that offers a startlingly novel rendering of the faith he left." 899: 885: 33: 871: 576:'s as "not a particularly scholarly essay". He concluded "t seems that Ibn Warraq has included some of the essays not on the basis of their scholarly value or their status as 'classics', but rather on the basis of their hostility to Islam. This does not necessarily diminish the value of the collection, but the reader should be aware that this collection does not fully represent classic scholarship on the Quran." 857: 1606:
afterlife as a promise for chilled drinks and good food. Luxenberg's work has been well received among Islamic scholars, and the esteemed critic Ibn Warraq regards it as the most important book ever written on the Qu'ran. In a series of three lectures, Warraq, who has spent several months working with Luxenberg, will give a summary of Luxenberg's research."
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Secularist Muslim intellectual Ibn Warraq – not his real name – was born on the Indian subcontinent and educated in the West. He believes that the great Islamic civilisations of the past were established in spite of the Koran, not because of it, and that only a secularised Islam can deliver
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wrote: "As a scholar of Islam myself, I find Ibn Warraq's attitude to be very refreshing, and his scholarship for the most part to be accurate and devastating in pinpointing the weaknesses in Muslim orthodoxy." The book's third essay, Cook continues, "could almost serve as a history of our field, and
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the great Islamic scholar ... one of the great heroes of our time. Personally endangered, yet unremittingly vocal, Ibn Warraq leads a trend. Like a growing number of people, he refuses to accept the idea that all cultures are equal. Were Ibn Warraq to live in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, he would not be
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Center for Inquiry Volume 9 Issue 5, July 2005. Qu'ranic "scholar Christoph Luxenberg has tried to demonstrate that many of the obscurities of the Qu'ran disappear if we read certain words as being Syriac and not Arabic. This would include, for example, reinterpreting the promise of virgins in the
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wrote that "With few exceptions, he relies almost entirely on the Western tradition of Islamic studies" but concluded that "Despite his anger, 'Ibn Warraq' has written a serious and thought-provoking book" calling for "an equally compelling response from a believing Muslim." Pipes also described
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His mother died when he was an infant. He stated in an interview that he "studied Arabic and read the Qur'an as a young man in hopes of becoming a follower of the Islamic faith." His father decided to send him to a boarding school in
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My mother tongue is Kutchi, a dialect linguistically related to Sindhi...I was born into a (Sunni) Muslim family in Rajkot, in the state of Gujarat, a town where Gandhi also grew up (though he was born
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states that "Ibn Warraq is not interested in debate; he wants nothing less than wholesale conversion to his point of view within the community of scholars of Islam" and added that his work,
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Warraq has written historiographies of the early centuries of the Islamic timeline and has published works which question mainstream conceptions of the period. The pen name Ibn Warraq (
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took a very high posture as a critical rationalist and opponent of all forms of obscurantism, now relies so heavily on writings by Christian polemicists from the nineteenth century".
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A. J. Caschetta concluded that "Ibn Warraq's critique of Said's thought and work is thorough and convincing, indeed devastating to anyone depending on Saidism. It should do to
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said that it was "a scrupulously documented examination of the life and teaching of the Prophet Muhammad, of the Qur'an and its sources, and the resulting culture."
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debate, "We Should Not Be Reluctant to Assert the Superiority of Western Values," in London. He argued in favor of the motion; arguing on the same side as him were
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with his wife in 1982, opening an Indian restaurant. He also worked as a courier for a travel agent. Warraq claims to have been "shy" for most of his youth.
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has labelled him as "polemical and inconsistent" in his writing. Berg lauded the inclusion of the essay by Theodor Nöldeke, but panned the inclusion of
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A pattern in Warraq's work is paying homage to earlier scholarly works on Christianity by borrowing their titles and applying them to Islam:
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Warraq claims to have been induced into writing against Islam due to the inclination of Western intellectuals in blaming Rushdie during the
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Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
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of its systematic failure to critique the foundational texts of Islam as those of other faiths have been critiqued."
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able to write. Or if he did, he would not be allowed to live. Among his work is criticism of the sources of the
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Christmas in the Koran: Luxenberg, Syriac, and the Near Eastern and Judeo-Christian Background of Islam
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The Cold War on British Muslims: An examination of Policy Exchange and the Centre for Social Cohesion
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publication, and wrote on topics such as "Why I am not Muslim." Warraq claims to have been hosted by
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authors throughout the history of Islam. The name refers to the 9th-century skeptical scholar
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Koranic Allusions: The Biblical, Qumranian, and pre-Islamic background to the Koran
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Asfaruddin, Asma; Warraq, Ibn (2001). "The Quest for the Historical Muhammad".
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The Islam in Islamic Terrorism: The Importance of Beliefs, Ideas, and Ideology
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Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy
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Which Koran?: Variants, Manuscripts, and the Influence of Pre-Islamic Poetry
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The Origins of The Koran: Classic Essays on Islam's Holy Book § Reviews
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Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
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Review: The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam's Holy Book
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Leaving the Allah Delusion Behind: Atheism and Freethought in Islam
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The Quest for the Historical Muhammad (Ibn Warraq) § Criticism
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Reason Papers: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
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Ibn Warraq continued writing with several works examining the
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origin. Although born in India, he held a Pakistani passport.
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The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam's Holy Book
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The Origins of The Koran: Classic Essays on Islam's Holy Book
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Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism
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Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism
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Statement by Ibn Warraq on the World Trade Center Atrocity
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After graduating, Warraq was a primary school teacher in
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
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Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society
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Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society
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He noticed a lack of anti-Islam tracts in 1793: 1754:"Answering Edward Said: Peter Berkowitz on 1549:"International counter-jihad organisations" 321:In October 2007, Warraq participated in an 190: 1368: 1183: 1057:Muslim states from fundamentalist madness. 510:described Warraq as a "worthy critic" for 31: 1943:(4). American Oriental Society: 728–729. 1432: 1364: 1362: 1299: 1259: 1257: 138:." It is a name that has been adopted by 1937:Journal of the American Oriental Society 1889: 1887: 1517: 1375:Virgins, what virgins?: and other essays 990: 1969: 1872: 1813:, vol. 34, no. 2 (October 2012), p. 235 1803:Virgins? What Virgins? and Other Essays 1332: 1069:Ronald A. Lindsey (30 September 2010). 918:Bibliography of books critical of Islam 698:, edited and translated by Ibn Warraq, 678:, edited and translated by Ibn Warraq, 579:In reviewing Ibn Warraq's essay in his 533:In a 2012 review of Ibn Warraq's book, 499:In a 2008 review of Ibn Warraq's book, 310:in response to violent protests in the 16:Pen name of an author critical of Islam 2072: 1455: 1359: 1328: 1326: 1254: 564:In reviewing Ibn Warraq's compilation 440:("What the Bible Really Says", 1980). 368: 2100:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 1893: 1884: 1657: 1622:American Journal of Islam and Society 1615: 1609: 1311:(1). Middle East Institute: 130–137. 1293: 1230: 794:, Prometheus Books, 2013, 463 pages, 675:The Quest for the Historical Muhammad 657:: Classic Essays on Islam's Holy Book 491:. 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Oxford University. p. 280. 1456:Mooney, Chris (19 December 2001). 972:The quote in German as printed in 959:The quote in German as printed in 714:Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out 246:, where he studied philosophy and 14: 2161: 2095:21st-century pseudonymous writers 2090:20th-century pseudonymous writers 1994: 1618:"Warraq's War: A Critical Review" 1423: (archived 11 November 2013)) 1417:World Magazine "Dissident Voices" 591:has criticized Ibn Warraq's book 581:Quest for the Historical Muhammad 475:as his "favorite book on Islam." 429:The Quest of the Historical Jesus 1878:Middle East Institute Viewpoints 1107:. 9 October 2007. 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Index

Warraq in 2018
Rajkot
Gujarat
British India
University of Edinburgh
Criticism of Islam
pen name
Islam
Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society
Center for Inquiry
Quranic criticism
Arabic
Salman Rushdie
dissident
Abu Isa al-Warraq
Why I Am Not a Muslim
The Origins of the Koran
The Quest for the Historical Muhammad
What the Koran Really Says
Leaving Islam
polemical
revisionist
Rajkot
Gujarat
British India
Pakistan
Kutchi
England
madrasa
Bridge in Britain

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