Why I Am Not a Muslim by Warraq, Ibn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Epigraph Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 - The Rushdie Affair

Before 14 February 1989 After 14 February 1989 Trahison des Clercs

Chapter 2 - The Origins of Islam

Arabian Idolatry Pilgrimage The Kaaba Allah Zoroastrianism Jinns, Demons, and Other Shadowy Being The Muslim Debt to Judaism

Chapter 3 - The Problem of Sources

Skepticism and Doubts The Hijra or Emigration to Medina, AD. 622

Chapter 4 - Muhammad and His Message

Political Assassinations; The Massacre of the Jews The Zaynab Affair The Satanic Verses The Peace if Hudalblya

Chapter 5 - The Koran

The Word of God? The Doctrines of the Koran Adam and Evolution. Creation and Modern Cosmology The Origins of Life and the Theory of Evolution God the Creator Rood, Famine, and Drought Miracles Jesus in the Koran Did Jesus Exist? The Rise of Islam and the Origins of Christianity Historical Errors in the Koran Regulations for the Muslim Community Of Religion in General, and Islam in Particular

Chapter 6 - The Totalitarian Nature of Islam

No Separation of State and Church Islamic Law

Chapter 7 - Is Islam Compatible with Democracy and Human Rights?

Human Rights and Islam Democracy and Islam Why Islam Is Incompatible with Democracy and Human Rights Human Rights Irrational Fear and Loathing of the West

Chapter 8 - Arab Imperialism, Islamic Colonialism

Resistance to Arab Imperialism and Islam Arab Racism Anti-Arab Reaction Pre-Islamic Glories European Imperialism Berber Nationalism

Chapter 9 - The Arab Conquests and the Position of Non-Muslim Subjects

Early Attitudes: Muhammad and the Koran Christians and Jews in the Koran Jihad The Islamic Conquests Buddhism and Buddhists Scholars, Historians, and the Dhimmis Discriminatory Taxes Public Office Inequality before the Law Religious Matters The Golden Age? Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries Three Conclusions

Chapter 10 - Heretics and Heterodoxy, Atheism and Freethought, Reason and Revelation

Early Years The Umayyads (661-750) The Abbasids (In Iraq and Baghdad, 749-1258) The Kharijites The Qadarites The Mu‘tazilites and Rationalism Manes (or Manl) (AD. 216-276) and Manichaeism Zindiqs and Zandaqa—From Dualism to Atheism

Chapter 11 - Greek Philosophy and Science and Their Influence on Islam

Islamic Philosophy Translations The First Period of Islamic Philosophy: AI-Klndl, Al-Farabl, Ibn Sina (Avicenna) The Second Period of Islamic Philosophy Greek Science and Islamic Civilization

Chapter 12 - Sufism or Islamic Mysticism

Is Islam Tolerant of Hereby?

Chapter 13 - AI-Ma’arri Chapter 14 - Women and Islam

Adam and Eve An Inferior Being Inequality In Matters of Sexuality The Vell Case Histories: The Women of Pakistan

Chapter 15 - Taboos: Wine, Pigs, and Homosexuality

Of Whiskey and Wine Pigs and Pork Homosexuality

Chapter 16 - Final Assessment of Muhammad

Muhammad’s Sincerity Moral Reforms

Chapter 17 - Islam in the West

Muslims In Britain and What They Want The Betrayal by the Intellectuals

Glossary Abbreviations of Journals and Encyclopedias Notes Selected Bibliography Index