Why I Am Not a Muslim
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Why I Am Not a Muslim
Author	Ibn Warraq
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Religion
Publisher	Prometheus Books
Publication date	May 1995
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	294 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0879759844
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."¹

Chapters

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• 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

References

1. ^ Ibn al-Rawandi, "Review of Why I Am Not a Muslim" in the New Humanist