The Truth About Muhammad

The Truth About Muhammad

Infobox Book
name = The Truth About Muhammad


image_caption ="The Truth About Muhammad" has been on the New York Times Best Seller list
author = Robert Spencer
country = USA
language = English
series =
subject =
genre =
publisher = Regnery Publishing
pub_date = September 15, 2006
english_pub_date =
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 256
isbn =978-1596980280
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"The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion" (2006) is a book by Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch.

In the book the author proposes to present a "scrupulously accurate account of what Muhammad said and did" examining the writings of the early biographers of Muhammad such as Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi, Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari as well as the Qur'an and the hadith collections of Bukhari and Muslim. In the examination of the early sources, Spencer attempts to elucidate the events of Muhammad's life which are invoked by contemporary Islamic clerics, governments, advocates and jihadists such as the Muslim Brotherhood's "spiritual" leader, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi today as a standard for their behaviour which may be viewed as violent and incompatible with Western values of human rights.

The book examines Muhammad's modern legacy examining his influence on modern day practices sanctioned by law in various Islamic countries, such as child marriages and divorce laws, punishments such as stoning for adultery and amputation for theft, execution for apostasy as well as the jihad and dhimmi doctrines adopted towards non-Muslims.

The book was on the New York Times Best Seller list for the week ending October 14, 2006. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/books/bestseller/1029besthardnonfiction.html?ex=1168491600&en=325a8b075d0d4a05&ei=5070 Best Sellers] - NYT]

Banning in Pakistan

The government of Pakistan confiscated all copies of the book and banned it on 20 December 2006 citing "objectionable material" as the cause. [ [http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=936032 "Pakistan bans Robert"s book about Prophet Muhammad"] - KUNA] Spencer responded that the book does not assert anything that is not readily verifiable in the sources he provides. [ [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=26130 "Banned in Pakistan"] - FrontPageMag]

ee also

*Criticism of Muhammad

References and notes

External links

* [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=26130 Banned in Pakistan (Spencer's response )]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=LpMEkIZ1kQIC&printsec=frontcover Preview this book in Google Books]

Videos

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDUp0pqJmvQ Robert Spencer talks about the book] - Youtube.com (Duration: 03:58)
* [http://multimedia.heritage.org/content/wm/Allison-111406.wvx C-SPAN Video presentation at the Herigage foundation: Lecture on The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion]
* [http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/20/video-robert-spencer-talks-islam-with-laura-ingraham-on-oreilly/ Video: Robert Spencer talks Islam with Laura Ingraham on O’Reilly]

Audio

* [http://podcast.shirenetworknews.net/:entry:tuatara-2006-10-15-0000/ Robert Spencer discusses "The Truth about Muhammad" on Shire Network News (Part 1)]
* [http://podcast.shirenetworknews.net/:entry:tuatara-2006-10-22-0003/ Robert Spencer discusses "The Truth about Muhammad" on Shire Network News (Part 2)]


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