Why I Am Not a Muslim

Why I Am Not a Muslim

Author	Ibn Warraq
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Islam
Publisher	Prometheus Books
Publication date	May 1995
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	294 pp
ISBN
OCLC	32088699
Dewey Decimal	297 20
LC Class	BP169 .I28 1995
Followed by	The Origins of The Koran: Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book

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 United States 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 in which he was raised.

Outraged over the fatwa and death threats against Salman Rushdie, Ibn Warraq assumes a pseudonym to pen what one critic calls "serious and thought-provoking book" using a "sledge-hammer" approach to "demolish" Islam.^[1] The author's "polemic" criticizes Islam's mythology, theology, historic achievements, and current cultural influence.^[1] Warraq, drawing largely on previous research, provides an "invaluable compilation" of Islam's shortcomings. He "makes a compelling case" that Islam is "flatly incompatible" with "individual rights and liberties of a liberal, democratic, secular state."^[2]

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

References

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Criticism of religion

By religion	Buddhism Christianity Catholic Opus Dei Jehovah's Witnesses Latter Day Saint movement Protestantism Seventh-day Adventist Unification Church Hinduism Islam Islamism Twelver Shi’ism Wahhabism Jainism Judaism Monotheism New religious movement Scientology Sikhism Zoroastrianism

Religious texts	Bible Quran Hadiths Mormon sacred texts Book of Mormon Talmud

Religious figures	Charles Taze Russell Ellen White Jesus Moses Muhammad Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Religion and violence	Violence Christianity Mormonism Judaism Islam Buddhism India Terrorism Christian Hindu Islamic Jewish Persecution By Christians War In Islam In Judaism Segregation Sectarian violence

Books	Atheist Manifesto Christianity Unveiled God in the Age of Science? God Is Not Great Letter to a Christian Nation The Age of Reason The End of Faith The God Delusion The Rage Against God Why I Am Not a Christian Why I Am Not a Muslim

Movements	Antitheism Atheism Criticism of atheism Cārvāka Church of the SubGenius Flying Spaghetti Monster Invisible Pink Unicorn Nontheistic religions

People	Abraham Kovoor Ali Sina André Servier Annie Laurie Gaylor Arun Shourie Ayaan Hirsi Ali Ayn Rand B.R. Ambedkar Baron d'Holbach Bat Ye'or Bertrand Russell Bill Maher Carl Sagan Christopher Hitchens Dan Barker Daniel Dennett David Hume David Silverman Dayananda Saraswati Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya Denis Diderot Epicurus Frank Zappa Friedrich Nietzsche George Carlin Greydon Square Herman Philipse Howard Stern Ibn Warraq James Randi Karl Marx Ludwig Feuerbach Madalyn Murray O'Hair Magdi Allam Mark Twain Max Stirner Michael Shermer Michel Onfray Nonie Darwish Oriana Fallaci Pat Condell Penn & Teller Periyar E. V. Ramasamy PZ Myers Richard Dawkins Salman Rushdie Sam Harris Sigmund Freud Socrates Taslima Nasrin Thomas Paine Victor J. Stenger Voltaire Walter Kaufman

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Why I Am Not a Muslim