Did Muhammad exist? : an inquiry into Islam's obscure origins / Robert Spencer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spencer, Robert, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qurʼan--Controversial literature.

Qurʼan.

Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware : Intercollegiate Studies Institute, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<DIV><B>Are jihadists dying for a fiction? Everything you thought you knew about Islam is about to change.</B><BR /><BR /><BR /></DIV>

Contents:

Cover; Title; Dedication; Contents; Foreword to the Paperback Edition by Ibn Warraq; Chronology of Key Events; Muhammad and His Family, According to Islamic Tradition; Introduction: The Full Light of History?; Chapter 1: The Man who Wasn't There; Chapter 2: Jesus, the Muhammad; Chapter 3: Inventing Muhammad; Chapter 4: Switching On the Full Light of History; Chapter 5: The Embarrassment of Muhammad; Chapter 6: The Unchanging Qur'an Changes; Chapter 7: The Non-Arabic Arabic Qur'an; Chapter 8: What the Qur'an may Have Been; Chapter 9: Who Collected the Qur'an?

Chapter 10: Making Sense of it AllNotes; Further Reading; Acknowledgments; Index; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4976-0856-2

OCLC:

908094232