Did Muhammad Exist?
Subtitle: An Inquiry into Islam's Obscure Origins
By: by Robert Spencer
Publisher: ISI Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wilmington, DE
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781610170611
Subjects: Controversial literature; Koran; Criticism, interpretation; Islam
Description: This stunning book uncovers provocative evidence that forces us to ask: Did Muhammad, Islam’s founding prophet, even exist?
 
It is a question that few have thought―or dared―to ask. But the widely accepted story of Islam’s origins begins to crumble on close examination.
 
InDid Muhammad Exist? bestselling author Robert Spencer brings to early Islam the same level of probing historical criticism scholars have long applied to Christianity and Judaism. Meticulously examining historical records, archaeological findings, and pioneering new scholarship, Spencer challenges the most fundamental assumptions about Islam’s origins―raising questions with profound implications for our world today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: The man who wasn't there; title: Jesus, the Muhammed; title: Inventing Muhammed; title: Switching on the full light of history; title: The embarrassment of Muhammed; title: The unchanging Qur'an changes; title: The non-Arabic Arabic Qur'an; title: What the Qur'an may have been; title: Who collected the Qur'an?; title: Making sense of it all.