Did Muhammad Exist? Hardcover – 13 July 2021

It’s hard hitting, fact oriented and quite revolutionary book. It tear apart the facet of trickery and a lie very convincingly. A must read book for all.

HAppy

Clear language and exposition of the evidence regarding the real history of Islam, making it easy for everyone to understand.

I’ve now read two of Robert Spencer’s books, this was the first, with the other being ‘The History of Jihad’. I’m patiently waiting for “The Critical Qur’an” to arrive, which I have on pre-order. This book has 25 pages of Endnotes backing up his work with a very helpful index. It consists of 13 chapters.His bullet points called ‘A Revisionist Scenario” in the last chapter was one of my favorite parts of the book because he offers over two pages of quick hitting reminders of what we know about the traditional account of Muhammad’s life and the early days of Islam.I honestly don’t know how you can remain a Muslim after reading this book, it’s just that damning. Whether it’s the fact that Mecca is nowhere on a map until hundreds of years after the supposed death of Muhammad, the fact that not only the greater part of the religious vocabulary, but also the cultural vocabulary of the Qur’an is of non-Arabic origin, mosques not pointing toward Mecca but rather towards Petra, Hadith literature proliferating over two hundred years after the supposed death of Muhammad, Islam or the Qur’an not mentioned on coins for the first six decades of Arab conquest, the Qur’an containing numerous characters and stories lifted directly from Christianity, Judaism and other sources, etc.. I could go on and on.In short, this book is required reading and I highly recommend it.

Robert Spencer has pulled together an impressive array of scholarly findings of the early history of Islam and reveals how many claims and assertions about it are in fact groundless and a-historical. It is both scholarly and yet readable [although a few of the chapters about Koranic history and language get a little dry]. Invaluable for anyone seriously interested in understanding Islam. totally recommended.

Did Muhammad exist? After reading this excellent book and checking sources, turns out he didn’t, at least not in the form portrayed.

A great read presenting alternate views and history.Deserves more analysis.Feels like everyone knows the truth but can't say it.