"The Word of Mohammad; An Interview with Abdulkarim Soroush"

1996

Abdolkarim Soroush is a leading Iranian religious intellectual with highly controversial ideas on religion and politics. This paper and the Muslim Politics Program were made possible by the generous support of the Ford Foundation.

This research examines those distorted polemics and outright dubieties about Prophet Muhammad in the Western writings. The anti-Islamic polemical practice was universal. Many more examples of similar polemic biographies can be found in numerous texts of the medieval and early modem period. The Western attitudes to Prophet Muhammad failed to establish sound theoretic basis. The denial phenomenon is the strength in their argument. The Western and Christian polemics on Islamic issues disgrace Islam and its Prophet. It is only new attitudes to research depend clearly on the intentions of the researchers. The modern Western trends work on the history of Prophet Muhammad by avoiding any fabricated accounts while preserving the traditional denial attitude. The study identifies the recurring themes of deception, misinformation and misrepresentation, and confusion in the Western library.

Indubitably, Iranian thinker ʿAbdolkarīm Sorūš (b. 1945) in the course of the Islamic Republic's history has undergone an impressive change from establishment ideologist to its most prominent dissident. From 1980 on, he was a member of

This paper critiques some contemporary accounts of which forms of Muslim religiosity are at stake in conflicts over blasphemy, and asks whether the problem of offensive and injurious speech contributes to a critique of secularism.

2010

Book includes selected writings about the Prophet Muhammad from writers as in the table of contents below: The Koran: Commonly Called The Alkoran of Mohammed 1 George Sale ii The Hero As Prophet – Mahomet 5 Thomas Carlyle iii Histoire de la Turquie 23 Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine iv Mohammed: The Man and His Faith 25 Tor Andrae v Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman 34 W. Montgomery Watt vi History of the Arabs: From the Earliest Times to the Present 44 Philip K. Hitti vii Muhammad: Prophet of God 51 John L. Esposito viii Islam: Muhammad 66 Annemarie Schimmel ix In Search of Muhammad 72 Clinton Bennett x The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography 84 Barnaby Rogerson xi Muhammad, Prophet for Our Time 88 Karen Armstrong • The Birth of the Prophet 93 Bayard Taylor, with an Introduction by Anas S. Al-Shaikh-Ali

2000

2008

There was an age when people had the right to criticise the entourage of the prophet, when religious controversy was carried out with a great (...)

Arabica, 2013

In this article I propose that the polemical passages in the Koran should not be addressed as if they were aiming at narrating a portion of Muḥammad’s life but as parts of the koranic argumentation about its own origin and status. The first part of this paper shows how these polemics convey a religious debate by addressing the question of the sacred origin of the koranic text and the authenticity of Muḥammad’s prophetic role, in parallel. The second part provides an analysis of how the Koran argues about its own religious authority through these polemical passages: by meeting expectations which are described as Jewish and Christian, by refusing any attitude of denial, and by accusing the opponents of forgery. Hypotheses on the type of audiences of these passages are then exposed.

The Middle East Journal, 1992

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