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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797197603321

Autore

Spencer Robert <1962->

Titolo

Did Muhammad exist? : an inquiry into Islam's obscure origins / / Robert Spencer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wilmington, Delaware : , : Intercollegiate Studies Institute, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4976-0856-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 p.)

Disciplina

297.63

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Dedication; Contents; Foreword to the Paperback Edition by Ibn Warraq; Chronology of Key Events; Muhammad and His Family, According to Islamic Tradition; Introduction: The Full Light of History?; Chapter 1: The Man who Wasn't There; Chapter 2: Jesus, the Muhammad; Chapter 3: Inventing Muhammad; Chapter 4: Switching On the Full Light of History; Chapter 5: The Embarrassment of Muhammad; Chapter 6: The Unchanging Qur'an Changes; Chapter 7: The Non-Arabic Arabic Qur'an; Chapter 8: What the Qur'an may Have Been; Chapter 9: Who Collected the Qur'an?

Chapter 10: Making Sense of it AllNotes; Further Reading; Acknowledgments; Index; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

<DIV><B>Are jihadists dying for a fiction? Everything you thought you knew about Islam is about to change.</B><BR /><BR /><BR /></DIV>