Virgins? What Virgins?

by Warraq, Ibn

• ISBN13: 9781616141707
• ISBN10: 1616141700
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2010-04-27
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

In this wide-ranging collection of insightful, controversial, and often-witty essays, the renowned author of Why I Am Not a Muslim has created a representative selection of his best work on the Koran and various problems posed by the interaction of Islam with the West.

Author Biography

Ibn Warraq is the highly acclaimed author of Why I am Not a Muslim and Defending the West. He is also the editor of The Origins of the Koran, What the Koran Really Says, The Quest for the Historical Muhammad, Leaving Islam, and Which Koran?

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. 9
Preface	p. 11
Personal Matters
On Becoming English	p. 15
Apologia Pro Vita Sua	p. 37
Koranic Matters
Some Aspects of the History of Koranic Criticism, 700 CE to 2005 CE	p. 43
Introduction to What the Koran Really Says	p. 121
The Importance of Variants: Introduction to Which Koran?	p. 197
Virgins? What Virgins?	p. 247
Totalitarianisms
Islam, the Middle East, and Fascism	p. 255
Apologists of Totalitarianism: From Communism to Islam	p. 289
Apostasy, Human Rights, Religion, and Belief: New Threats to Freedom of Opinion and Expression	p. 321
Islam on Trial: Reasons for Leaving Islam	p. 331
Reformation and Enlightenment
Reason, Not Revelation	p. 381
Journalism
Honest Intellectuals Must Shed Their Spiritual Turbans: Islam-The Final Taboo	p. 409
Brother Tariq and the Muslim Hoods: Toward a Taxonomy of Islamic Subterfuges	p. 413
Rock, Humanitarian Causes, Political Commitment, and Islam,	p. 419
The Regent's Canal and the Trail to the British Raj, Parsis, and Sir Cowasjee Jehangir Readymoney	p. 435
Why the West Is Best: My Response to Tariq Ramadan	p. 441
Democracy in a Cartoon	p. 447
Allawi and the Crisis of Islamic Civilization	p. 451
Notes	p. 455
Index	p. 511
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