Ibn Warraq

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Ibn Warraq


Born
Rajkot, India
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Genre
Nonfiction, Religion

Influences
Ibn al-Rawandi, Al-Maʿarri, Muhammad al Warraq, Muhammad ibn Zakariya ...more


Ibn Warraq is the pen name of an author most famous for his criticism of Islam. He is the founder of the Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society (ISIS) and is formerly a senior research fellow at the Center for Inquiry, focusing on Quranic criticism. Warraq is currently the Vice-President of the World Encounter Institute. Warraq's commentary on Islam is considered by some to be overly polemical and revisionist, while others praise it as well-researched.

Warraq gathered world notice through his historiographies of the early centuries of the Islamic timeline and has published works which question mainstream conceptions of the period. The pen name "Ibn Warraq" (Arabic: ابن وراق‎, most literally "son of a papermaker") is used due to ...more

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Defending the West: A Criti...
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Why the West is Best: A Mus...
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What the Koran Really Says
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The Origins of the Koran: C...
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The Quest for the Historica...
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Quotes by Ibn Warraq

“The harsh truth that this is the only life we have should make us try and improve it for as many people as possible.”
― Ibn Warraq, Why I Am Not a Muslim
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“I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.”
― Ibn Warraq, Why I am Not a Muslim
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“Monotheism has also been recognized as inherently intolerant.”
― Ibn Warraq, Why I Am Not a Muslim
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