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223:, add to the chagrin of the reader", and argued 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 book "needlessly poisons the atmosphere and stymies efforts to engage in honest scholarly discussion". 27: 175:. The contributors argue that traditional Islamic accounts of its history and the origins of the Quran are fictitious and based on historical revisionism aimed at forging a religious 230:
states that Ibn Warraq collected old writings by Orientalists who have been long discredited and added that "the more rigid and biased the Orientalists, the better for Warraq".
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described the book as a "partisan work" and added that Warraq "clearly has an ideological axe to grind". Asma states that "poor editing, sloppy transliteration, and
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theories in order to advance "anti-Islam polemic", forwarding that "this lopsided character makes
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AbuKhalil, As'ad (2004). ""The Islam Industry" and Scholarship: Review Article".
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Asfaruddin, Asma; Warraq, Ibn (2001). "The Quest for the Historical Muhammad".
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Teipen, Alfons H. (Summer 2003). "The Quest for the Historical Muhammad".
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a book that is likely to mislead many an unwary general reader."
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overview of ... scholarship on the life of Muhammad."
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Ibn Warraq
Historicity of Muhammad
Islamic history
Prometheus Books
Hardcover
Paperback
E-book
ISBN
978-1573927871
OCLC
468593725
Ibn Warraq
pen name
Islam
Quran
Arab identity
Fred Donner
revisionist
Furman University
polemical
Asma Afsaruddin
ad hominem
Watt
As'ad AbuKhalil
Historicity of Muhammad
"Review: The Quest for the Historical Muhammad"
the original
doi
10.2307/606555

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