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Category: Islam Watch

Islam Watch
Historical Methodology and the Believer Part 3
Free Inquiry Volume 31, No. 2
February / March 2011
Ibn Warraq

In previous installments of this article, Ibn Warraq chronicled a series of seemingly disingenuous comments by Qur’anic scholars insisting that their findings regarding the history of the Qur’an and Islam itself have no bearing on the truth or falsity of the religion. He discussed the necessary role of autonomy if historical scholarship is to achieve …

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Islam Watch
Historical Methodology and the Believer, Part 2
Free Inquiry Volume 30, No. 6
October / November 2010
Ibn Warraq

In Part 1 (June/July 2010), Ibn Warraq chronicled a series of seemingly disingenuous comments by scholars of the Qur’an insisting that their findings regarding the history of the Qur’an and Islam itself have no bearing on the truth or falsity of the religion. He referred to a letter in the New Statesman by scholar Michael …

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Islam Watch
Historical Methodology and the Believer, Part 1
Free Inquiry Volume 30, No. 4
June / July 2010
Ibn Warraq

A few years ago, I was invited to a conference at The Hague by Professor Hans Jansen, the great Arabist. After listening to grim papers all day long, Jansen and I headed for the nearest bar. I was to give my talk the next day, and I asked him what I should talk about. He …

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Islam Watch
Probing the Roots of Islam, Part 2
Free Inquiry Volume 30, No. 2
February / March 2010
Ibn Warraq

In the previous issue of Free Inquiry, I began my report on a conference, “The Qur’an in Its Historical Context,” held at the University of Notre Dame in April 2009. That conference featured, among others, the controversial scholar Christoph Luxenberg (a pseudonym). I noted that the papers offered by many of the presenters were exciting …

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Islam Watch
Notre Dame Conference Probes the Roots of Islam; Part 1
Free Inquiry Volume 30, No. 1
December 2009 / January 2010
Ibn Warraq

The Catholic Notre Dame University of South Bend, Indiana, does not eschew controversy. In 2004, the university offered the Swiss Muslim Islamicist Tariq Ramadan a tenured position at its Institute for International Peace Studies. To the disappointment of his many supporters, Ramadan never took up his position because his visa was revoked by the State …

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Islam Watch
The Significance of the Non-Muslim Evidence for Qur’anic Studies (Part 3)
Free Inquiry Volume 28, No. 3
April / May 2008
Ibn Warraq

Below, the author concludes an examination of significant figures in the medieval West’s appraisal of Islam. Parts 1 and 2 appeared in the previous two issues.—Eds. Riccoldo Da Monte Croce (1243–1320) Riccoldo was born in 1243 in Florence. He joined the Dominican Order at the age of twenty-four and traveled in the Middle East as …

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Islam Watch
The Significance of the Non-Muslim Evidence for Qur’anic Studies, Part 2
Free Inquiry Volume 28, No. 2
February / March 2008
Ibn Warraq

With this article, Ibn Warraq continues the examination of significant figures in the medieval West’s appraisal of Islam that he began in the December 2007/Jan uary 2008 issue. In this installment, he focuses on Robert of Ketton (who probably died in the second half of the twelfth century) and Mark of Toledo (fl.1193–1216).—Eds. The Abbot …

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Islam Watch
The Significance of the Non-Muslim Evidence for Qur’anic Studies
Free Inquiry Volume 28, No. 1
December 2007 / January 2008
Ibn Warraq

Alphonse Mingana, surveying the writings of Christians of the seventh century—the colloquy between an Arab general and the Monophysite patriarch of Antioch, John I; the letters of Isho`yahb III, patriarch of Seleucia; and the chronicles of John Bar Penkaye—came to the conclusion that “the Christian historians of the whole of the seventh century had no …

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Islam Watch
Islamic Anti-Semitism
Free Inquiry Volume 27, No. 6
October / November 2007
Ibn Warraq

In Part 1, which appeared in the June/July 2007 issue of Free Inquiry, Ibn Warraq explored the history of Islamic anti-Semitism. In part 2, which ap peared in the August/September 2007 issue, he examined its underpinnings in religious texts and culture. Here, that analysis is concluded.—Eds. By way of review, I distinguish three Islams. “Islam …

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Islam Watch
Islamic Anti-Semitism
Free Inquiry Volume 27, No. 5
August / September 2007
Ibn Warraq
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Islam Watch
Islamic Anti-Semitism
Free Inquiry Volume 27, No. 4
June / July 2007
Ibn Warraq
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Islam Watch
The Nature of the Literary Evidence: A Dialogue on Methodology, Part 2
Free Inquiry Volume 27, No. 1
December 2006 / January 2007
Ibn Warraq
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Islam Watch
The Nature of the Literary Evidence: A Dialogue on Methodology, Part 1
Free Inquiry Volume 26, No. 6
October / November 2006
Ibn Warraq
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Islam Watch
The Need for Qur’anic Criticism, Part 2
Free Inquiry Volume 26, No. 4
June / July 2006
Ibn Warraq
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Islam Watch
The Need for Qur’anic Criticism, Part 1
Free Inquiry Volume 26, No. 3
April / May 2006
Ibn Warraq

Islam Watch
Apostasy and Human Rights
Free Inquiry Volume 26, No. 2
February / March 2006
Ibn Warraq
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Islam Watch
Virgins? What Virgins?
Free Inquiry Volume 26, No. 1
December 2005 / January 2006
Ibn Warraq
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