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The Myth of Islamic Tolerance warrants our attention. Any study of contemporary Islam would be incomplete without it. Collectively, the essays expose an unsettling fact: that Islam's famed tolerance of non-Muslims has over the centuries fallen well short of an embrace ... However, the book is full of flagrant distortions and glaring omissions. [2]
The book is in dialogue format, and features an exchange between Harris, an atheist and a critic of religion, and Nawaz, an Islamist-turned-liberal activist. [1] Harris argues that the doctrines of Islam are dangerous while Nawaz defends Islam by arguing that those dangerous doctrines have been circumvented by the tradition. [ 3 ]
The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims (editor), Prometheus Books, 2005. ISBN 1-59102-249-5; Spencer, Robert. Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West, Regnery Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-89526-100-6
She wrote that "the historian behind The Myth is promoting propaganda traditionally associated with the Spanish far-right", and "The Myth ' s myth is a myth", accusing Fernández-Morera of constructing a straw man argument of medieval Islamic tolerance that is not the modern academic consensus, as well as "It would be a book-length corrective ...
This category is for books critical of Islam. It is distinct from the category for books about Islamism (although some titles may belong to both). Directory structure of the Islam related categories
Cook receiving the Farabi International Award in 2008, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presiding. The book has been reviewed by Donna Robinson Divine [7] and Ulrike Freitag. [8]Fred Donner praises the book as the pinnacle of classical philological orientalism, Christopher Melchert, Paul R. Powers, and Andrew Rippen all give positive assessments, and Michael Chamberlain calls it a "masterpiece".
Sami Aldeeb (born 1949), Palestinian lawyer with Swiss citizenship, author of many books and articles on Arab and Islamic law. [112] Salwan Momika (1986-2025), Iraqi Assyrian refugee and atheist activist, who burned the Quran numerous times in 2023 and has campaigned to ban the Quran in Sweden and classify Islam as a terrorist religion.
Islamic Legal Punishments & The Zeitgeist. 2020. ISBN 9780359975914. Aʻẓamī, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá. On Schacht's Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence. United Kingdom: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, 1996. Ahmed, Rumee. Sharia Compliant: A User's Guide to Hacking Islamic Law. United States: Stanford University Press, 2018.. Ahmed, Rumee.