With Barry Nussbaum of the American Truth Project, Tuesday. Order the new revised and expanded version of Did Muhammad Exist? here.
Who put the Qur’an together?
Order the new revised and expanded version of Did Muhammad Exist? here.
Robert Spencer Video: How We KNOW the Arab Conquerors of the 7th Century Were Not Muslims
With Barry Nussbaum of the American Truth Project. Order the new revised and expanded version of Did Muhammad Exist? here.
Did Muhammad utter all or most of what is in the Qur’an?
Here is the third part of my refutation of a 2008 article by Patricia Crone (who died in 2015), who was one of the pioneering scholars of historical revisionism regarding the standard account of Muhammad’s life, and yet in this article seemed to retreat from her previous views. The first part is here, and […]
Does the Qur’an establish that Muhammad existed?
As I noted yesterday, people who disagree with the historical investigations discussed in Did Muhammad Exist? have not infrequently sent me this 2008 article by Patricia Crone (who died in 2015), who was one of the pioneering scholars of historical revisionism regarding the standard account of Muhammad’s life, and yet in this article seems to […]
Patricia Crone: ‘There is no doubt that Mohammed existed.’ Here’s why she’s wrong.
People who disagree with the historical investigations discussed in Did Muhammad Exist? have not infrequently sent me this 2008 article by Patricia Crone (who died in 2015), who was one of the pioneering scholars of historical revisionism regarding the standard account of Muhammad’s life, and yet in this article seems to retreat from her previous […]
What do the earliest historical records tell us about Muhammad (if anything)?
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Muslim cleric on accused blasphemer: ‘We just kill. For us, as it concerns the Apostle of Allah, ours is to kill.’
Islam mandates death for non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state who mention “something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o11.10), and such laws are based upon passages in the Hadith and Sira in which Muhammad orders the murders of people who have insulted him. These […]
Available now: The new revised and expanded edition of Robert Spencer’s ‘Did Muhammad Exist?’
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‘Did Muhammad Exist?’: ‘Intellectually exhilarating.’ ‘Leaves no stone unturned.’
Author’s note: This is the fifth and final segment of my review of Robert Spencer’s new revised and expanded edition of Did Muhammad Exist?. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. Part 4 is here. Here is more from chapter thirteen, “Making Sense of it All,” which gives a wonderful […]