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Islamic theologian concludes: Muhammad probably never existed

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Why did Muhammad Sven Kalisch come to this conclusion? Find out in Did Muhammad Exist?. “Professor Hired for Outreach to Muslims Delivers a Jolt,” by Andrew Higgins, Wall Street Journal, November 15, 2008: MÜNSTER, Germany — Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany’s first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy month, […]

An Evaporating Edifice: The stunning truth about Islam’s origins

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A superb review by Bruce Bawer of the new revised and expanded version of Did Muhammad Exist?, which you can order here. “An Evaporating Edifice,” by Bruce Bawer, FrontPage, July 26, 2021: Unlike other religions, declared the nineteenth-century French scholar Ernest Renan, Islam “was born in the full light of history.” Renan’s point, of course, was […]

‘One of the first books to publicly question the existence of the man Muslims look to as their paradigm for life’

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Here is an excerpt from Jay Smith’s preface to the new revised and expanded version of Did Muhammad Exist?. Order it here. Eight years ago when Robert Spencer published his second major book on Muhammad, entitled Did Muhammad Exist? It was one of the first books to publicly question the very existence of the man almost two […]

What the Qur’an tells us, and doesn’t tell us, about Muhammad

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Here is the fourth 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, the second […]

Did Muhammad utter all or most of what is in the Qur’an?

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  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 […]

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