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Leaving Islam »

Authors: Ibn Warraq
ISBN-13: 9781591020684, ISBN-10: 1591020689
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: February 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Ibn Warraq

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Just as anti-communists were the darlings of the literary market place after the fall of the Soviet Union and Berlin Wall, so now anti- Muslims take their moment in the sun. The 37 accounts here are assembled by Warraq (Why I Am Not a Muslim), who also lists resources for readers who want more. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Preface	11
Pt. 1	Theory and Practice of Apostasy in Islam
1	Apostasy	15
2	Early History of Apostasy in Islam: Zindiqs, Atheists, Dualists, Mystics, and Freethinkers	39
3	Al-Rawandi and Al-Razi	51
4	Sufism, or Islamic Mysticism and the Rejection of Islam	59
5	Abu 'l-Ala' Ahmad b. 'Abd Allah b. Sulayman al-Ma'arri	63
6	The Poet of Doubt: 'Umar Khayyam: Medieval and Modern Iranian Freethought	73
7	Apostates of Islam I: Converts to Christianity	89
8	Apostates of Islam II: Converts to Hinduism, Humanism, Deism, Atheism, and Agnosticism	101
9	Apostasy, Human Rights, and Islam	109
Pt. 2	Testimonies Submitted to the ISIS Web Site
10	Introduction	115
11	Testimonies from the ISIS Web Site	117
Pt. 3	Testimonies of Born Muslims: Murtadd Fitri
12	Introduction: The Allah That Failed	135
13	Why I Left Islam: My Passage From Faith to Enlightenment	137
14	A Journal of My Escape from the Hell of Islam	159
15	Islamic Terrorism and the Genocide in Bangladesh	181
16	An Iranian Girlhood and Islamic Barbarism	203
17	Leaving Islam and Living Islam	213
18	Thinking for Oneself	225
19	A Rationalist Look at Islam	227
20	Floods, Droughts, Islam, and Other Natural Calamities	239
21	Liberation from Muhammadan Ideology	251
22	A View from the Far East	255
23	An Accidental Critic	261
24	On Being a Woman in Pakistan	277
25	The Lifting of the Veil of Blind Faith	279
26	Autobiography of a Dissident	285
27	Now I Am Guided	293
28	The Wind Blowing through My Hair	301
29	A Philosopher's Rejection of Islam	303
30	My Malaise	315
31	A Nightmare in Tunisia	319
32	An Atheist from Andhra Pradesh	333
Pt. 4	Testimonies of Western Converts: Murtadd Milli
33	From Submitter to Mulhid	339
34	A Spanish Testament: My Experience As a Muslim	353
35	"Forget What Is and Is Not Islam"	361
36	I Married a Muslim	365
37	Dark Comedy	369
App. A	Islam on Trial: The Textual Evidence	391
App. B	Ex-Muslims of the World Unite!	431
App. C	The Council for Secular Humanism	439
App. D	A List of Web Sites Critical of Islam	441
App. E	Bibliography of Books Critical of Islam	467

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