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Virgins, what virgins? : and other essays / by Ibn Warraq.

By: Publication details: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2010.Description: p. cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781616141707 (pbk.) :
  • 1616141700 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BP169 .I287 2010
Contents:
Preface -- Part I: Personal matters -- On becoming English -- Apologia pro vita sua -- Part II: Koranic matters -- Some aspects of the history of Koranic criticism, 700-2005, C.E. -- Introduction to what the Koran really says -- Introduction to which Koran? -- Virgins, what virgins? -- Part III: Totalitarianisms -- Islam, Middle East, and fascism -- Apologists of totalitarianism -- Apostasy -- Islam on trial -- Part IV: Reformation and Enlightenment -- Is an Islamic reformation possible? -- Reason not revelation -- Part V: Journalism -- Honest intellectuals -- Brother Tariq and the Muslim hoods -- Heavy metal Islam, with Raphael Ismail -- Sir Cowasjee Jehangir ready money -- Why the West is best -- Democracy in a cartoon -- Allawi and the crisis of Islamic civilization.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Part I: Personal matters -- On becoming English -- Apologia pro vita sua -- Part II: Koranic matters -- Some aspects of the history of Koranic criticism, 700-2005, C.E. -- Introduction to what the Koran really says -- Introduction to which Koran? -- Virgins, what virgins? -- Part III: Totalitarianisms -- Islam, Middle East, and fascism -- Apologists of totalitarianism -- Apostasy -- Islam on trial -- Part IV: Reformation and Enlightenment -- Is an Islamic reformation possible? -- Reason not revelation -- Part V: Journalism -- Honest intellectuals -- Brother Tariq and the Muslim hoods -- Heavy metal Islam, with Raphael Ismail -- Sir Cowasjee Jehangir ready money -- Why the West is best -- Democracy in a cartoon -- Allawi and the crisis of Islamic civilization.

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