I am forced to address a problem that I have ignored for many years. There are many unscrupulous people on the Internet — on chat rooms, Twitter, and, above all, Facebook — pretending to be Ibn Warraq, speaking as Ibn Warraq, making comments and analyses in the name of Ibn Warraq. May I take this […]
Ibn Warraq: Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History (Part 51)
Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 51 Parts 1-39 / Part 40 / Part 41 / Part 42 / Part 43 / Part 44 / Part 45 / Part 46 / Part 47 / Part 48 / Part 49 / Part […]
Ibn Warraq: Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History (Part 50)
Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 50 Parts 1-39 / Part 40 / Part 41 / Part 42 / Part 43 / Part 44 / Part 45 / Part 46 / Part 47 / Part 48 / Part 49 “…They merely […]
Ibn Warraq: Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History (Part 49)
Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 49 Parts 1-39 / Part 40 / Part 41 / Part 42 / Part 43 / Part 44 / Part 45 / Part 46 / Part 47 / Part 48 Gibbon also acknowledges that that […]
Ibn Warraq: Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History (Part 48)
Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 48 Parts 1-39 / Part 40 / Part 41 / Part 42 / Part 43 / Part 44 / Part 45 / Part 46 / Part 47 In fact, I believe Gibbon’s position on the […]
Ibn Warraq: Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History (Part 47)
Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 47 Parts 1-39 / Part 40 / Part 41 / Part 42 / Part 43 / Part 44 / Part 45 / Part 46 The Historiography of the Crusades. In the first period of the […]
Ibn Warraq: Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History (Part 46)
Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 46 Parts 1-39 / Part 40 / Part 41 / Part 42 / Part 43 / Part 44 / Part 45 CONCLUSIONS: CRUSADES NOT BARBARIC. Often when criticizing Islam, I am interrupted by the remark […]
Ibn Warraq: Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History (Part 45)
Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 45 Parts 1-39 / Part 40 / Part 41 / Part 42 / Part 43 / Part 44 “…This first attempt to rescue the holy sepulchre was followed by others equally wild, misguided, and unfortunate. […]
Ibn Warraq: Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History (Part 44)
Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 44 Parts 1-39 / Part 40 / Part 41 / Part 42 / Part 43 Moving onto the nineteenth century, we have Sophie Cottin’s novel Mathilde, published in 1805, in which the eponymous heroine, sister […]
Ibn Warraq: Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History (Part 43)
Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 43 Parts 1-39 / Part 40 / Part 41 / Part 42 The Parable of the Three Rings, which attempts to settle the question of which of the three rival religions is the authentic and […]