Robert Spencer’s Did Muhammad Exist? was first published in 2011. The present book is thus a second edition, comprehensively revised and with more up-to-date references. Spencer’s work has been diligently researched, and all the possible evidence for the existence of Muhammad is thoroughly examined and, finally, found wanting. It is often argued that logically […]
The man who wasn’t there: Muhammad in the full light of history
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‘You can’t question Muhammad’s existence! That’s Islamophobic!’
One of the new features in the Revised and Expanded edition of Did Muhammad Exist? is that I discuss charges that the inquiry itself is “Islamophobic.” There is a surprising number of supposed scholars and academics who use this word to register their objections. I show why they’re wrong and why the term “Islamophobia” has […]
‘Did Muhammad Exist?” #1 bestseller in the History of Islam a week before release
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Why it’s false that Muhammad lived ‘in the full light of history’
“In place of the mystery under which the other religions have covered their origins, [Islam] was born in the full light of history; its roots are on the surface. The life of its founder is as well known to us as that of any sixteenth-century reformer. We can follow year by year the fluctuations of […]
‘This is the book, there is no oil in it’
An Islamic scholar writing late in the tenth century recounted a story in which the confusion of two sets of Arabic letters—zay (ز) for ra (ر) and ta (ت) for ba (ب)—came into play. A young man named Hamza began reciting the Qur’an’s second sura, which begins, “This is the book, there is no […]
‘Muhammad must have existed, because why would anyone invent all those stories of him raping and killing?’
Find out why that argument doesn’t hold up to scrutiny in the new revised and expanded version of Did Muhammad Exist?.
Proof: Islam could not possibly have originated the way canonical Islamic texts claim
The new revised and expanded edition of Did Muhammad Exist? contains: 25% new material. Answers to objections raised to the first edition. Information that makes it clear that Islam could not have originated the way it is described as doing so in the standard, canonical Islamic accounts. The reasons why it is more likely that […]
‘Robert Spencer has displayed brilliant scholarship and fierce courage’ — Bat Ye’or
“Robert Spencer has displayed brilliant scholarship and fierce courage in his previous books. In this one he perseveres and confronts with deep erudition the most topical problem of our century.”—BAT YE’OR, author of The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam Preorder Did Muhammad Exist? Revised and Expanded Edition here.
Islamic apologist Shabir Ally: ‘If the prophet Muhammad did not exist, then there’s no reason to be a Muslim’
That’s what is at stake in the historical inquiry into the origins of Islam, and that’s why so many Islamic apologists are reacting so furiously to the book Did Muhammad Exist? Revised and Expanded Edition. Preorder Did Muhammad Exist? Revised and Expanded Edition here.