Why I Am Not a Muslim

Why I Am Not a Muslim

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name = Why I Am Not a Muslim
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author = Ibn Warraq
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Religion
publisher = Prometheus Books
pub_date = May 1995
media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
pages = 294 pp
isbn = ISBN 0879759844
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followed_by = Origins of the Koran

"Why I Am Not a Muslim", a book written by Ibn Warraq, is a critique of Islam and the Qur'an. It was first published by Prometheus Books in the USA in 1995. The title of the book is a homage to Bertrand Russell's essay, "Why I Am Not a Christian", in which Russell criticizes the religion that he was brought up in. Ibn al-Rawandi in the "New Humanist" wrote "the most important thing demonstrated by Ibn Warraq is that Islam is fundamentalist by nature, and not by some peculiar and aberrant recent development." [Ibn al-Rawandi, " [http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/ibn_al-rawandi/review.html Review of Why I Am Not a Muslim] " in the "New Humanist" ]

Chapters

* Chapter 1 The Rushdie Affair
* Chapter 2 The Origins of Islam
* Chapter 3 The Problem of Sources
* Chapter 4 Muhammad and His Message
* Chapter 5 The Koran
* Chapter 6 The Totalitarian Nature of Islam
* Chapter 7 Is Islam Compatible with Democracy and Human Rights?
* Chapter 8 Arab Imperialism, Islamic Colonialism
* Chapter 9 The Arab Conquests and the Position of Non-Muslim Subjects
* Chapter 10 Heretics and Heterodoxy, Atheism and Freethought, Reason and Revelation
* Chapter 11 Greek Philosophy and Science and Their Influence on Islam
* Chapter 12 Sufism or Islamic Mysticism
* Chapter 13 Al-Ma'arri
* Chapter 14 Women and Islam
* Chapter 15 Taboos: Wine, Pigs, and Homosexuality
* Chapter 16 Final Assessment of Muhammad
* Chapter 17 Islam in the West

See also

* Apostasy in Islam
* Criticism of Islam

Editions

* Prometheus Books (hardcover), 1995, ISBN 0-87975-984-4
* (French) Age d'homme, (1999), ISBN 2-8251-1259-3
* (Persian), 2000
* Prometheus Books (paperback), 2003, ISBN 1-59102-011-5
* (Spanish) Ediciones del Bronce, Barcelona, 2003 ISBN 84-8453-146-5
* (Danish) Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2004, ISBN 87-595-2065-5

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