The truth about muhammad spencer
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Middle East Quarterly
Spencer’s important biography of Muhammad deserves a wide audience. Its central argument can be summarized as follows: Islam requires its adherents to obey and imitate Muhammad, holding him up as “the perfect person.” Indeed, over two dozen verses in the Qur’an command Muslims to do this. Yet the earliest and most reliable sources we have on Muhammad (all of them written by Muslims: the Qur’an, the early Muslim biographies of Ibn Ishaq and Ibn Sa’d, and the collections of prophetic traditions assembled by Bukhari and Muslim) testify that Muhammad engaged in, commanded, and condoned actions that any civilized individ today would condemn as gravely immoral.
He commanded the murder of those who mocked him, the execution and enslavement of hundreds of prisoners of war, the killing of apostates, the forcible conversion of pagan Arabs, the military subjugation and humiliation of Jews and Christians, and the torture of prisoners, and permitted sexual relations with
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Publisher Description
Muhammad: a frank look at his influential (and violent) life and teachings
In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam-perhaps the first such portrait in half a century-unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad's life that continue to affect our world today.
From Muhammad's first "revelation" from Allah (which filled him with terror that he was demonpossessed) to his deathbed (from which he called down curses upon Jews and Christians), it's all here-told with extensive documentation from the sources that Muslims themselves consider most reliable about Muhammad.
Spencer details Muhammad's development from a preacher of hellfire and damnation into a political and military leader who expanded his rule by force of arms, promising his warriors luridly physica
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The Truth About Muhammad
2006 book by Robert Spencer
The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion is a biography by American anti-Muslim[1] author Robert Spencer about the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Written from a critical perspective towards its subject, this book examines the life of Muhammad in ten chapters based on the sources provided by his early biographers, together with the Quran and the hadith, while also challenging their historical authenticity.
The book was released on 15 September 2006 by Regnery Publishing and appeared on the The New York Times Best Seller list for a week. The critical reception of the book was generally unfavorable, with Spencer being criticized for his selective use of sources, subjective interpretation and anachronistic reading of the historical context. Positive reviews were given mostly by Christian and conservative publications, with Human Events including it in its listing of "Top 10 Conservat