Why I am not a Muslim /
by Ibn Warraq. frey50
Published by : Prometheus Books, (Amherst, N.Y. :) , 1995 Physical details: xvi, 402 p. ; 23 cm. ISBN:1591020115 (pbk.).Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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200 - 299 | Book Cart | 297 War (Browse shelf) | Available | 83161 |
Hardcover published 1995.
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.