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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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 […]
Could the Qur’an have been adapted from a Christian text?
Author’s note: This is the fourth 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. In Chapter nine, Spencer tackles the vexatious problem of the variants in the Koran, largely but not entirely, due to the […]
Robert Spencer Video: Did Muhammad Exist?
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If Muhammad is legendary, why were stories invented about him that portray him in a negative light?
Author’s note: This is the third 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. Chapter 5 discusses the work of Ibn Ishaq and Ibn Hisham, the earliest biographers of Muhammad, in considerable detail, and shows how totally unreliable […]
Video: Jay Smith and Robert Spencer on the revised and expanded edition of ‘Did Muhammad Exist?’
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The earliest texts mentioning ‘Muhammad’: examined and found wanting
Author’s note: This is the second segment of my review of Robert Spencer’s new revised and expanded edition of Did Muhammad Exist?. Part 1 is here. In chapter 1, Spencer shows how, while the origins of Christianity have been subjected to critical examination for a very long time (after all Spinoza scrutinized the Old […]