Ibn Warraq

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Ibn Warraq, 2018

Ibn Warraq ( Arabic ابن وراق, DMG Ibn Warrāq ) is a pseudonym traditionally adopted by critical thinkers in Islam . Today an author works under this pseudonym (* 1946 in Rajkot , India ) who turned away from Islam as an apostate . He achieved notoriety with his call for a " cold war " by the " enlightened " against Islam.

Life

Ibn Warraq was not raised religiously in his childhood. His father would have liked to become a writer, but had to become a businessman.

Ibn Warraq always felt like a skeptic, but as a young man had an identity crisis in which he briefly opened up to Islam. In the end, however, skepticism prevailed and he turned to philosophers such as Baruch Spinoza , Immanuel Kant , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and David Hume .

Ibn Warraq studied at the University of Edinburgh with the orientalist William Montgomery Watt .

In 1993 he began appalled by the reactions of Western intellectuals to the death fatwa of Ayatollah Khomeini against the writer Salman Rushdie , with the work on his book Why I Am Not a Muslim (the title is based on Bertrand Russell's book Why I am not a Christian am on). When it came out in 1995, he was Professor of British and American Culture in Toulouse . Fearing to become a second Salman Rushdie, he took the pseudonym Ibn Warraq and even kept it a secret from his family.

Act

In his books, Ibn Warraq openly criticizes Islam and the reactions of the Western world to Islamic legitimacy and practices that violate human rights. He accuses western intellectuals of not being able to "defend the precious good of freedom".

A key demand of Ibn Warraq is the Cold War of the enlightened against Islam , which he considers to be misleading to distinguish it from Islamism , because Islam is not a peaceful religion (in contrast to Muslims). For example, the Koran contains demands that men should be allowed to beat their wives. This is an expression of the fact that it cannot be interpreted liberally, but must be questioned as such. A "hot war" against Islam could not be won.

Ibn Warraq differentiates between three “layers of Islam”: the Koran, interpretation by the theologians and daily practice - “that was mostly more liberal and tolerant than what the scribes wanted to convey to us”.

He is often quoted by the American religious scholar Robert Spencer .

He is one of the signatories of the Manifesto of the 12 against Islamism as a "new totalitarian threat".

Ibn Warraq names, following Sebastian Gorka, four Islamic authors who have most strongly influenced the ideology of martial Islamism, jihadism, with their main writings:

“ Sayyid Qutb ’s Milestones ; Abdallah Yusuf Azzam ’s The Defense of Muslim Lands ; Ayman al-Zawahiri ’s Knights under the Prophet's Banner ; and Brigadier SK Malik 's The Quranic Concept of Power. "

- Ibn Warraq, 2011

Works

Web links

Wikiquote: Ibn Warraq  - Quotes

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f "This Cold War can last 100 years" : Interview with Ibn Warraq in SPIEGEL (Spiegel-Online, August 12, 2007)
  2. ↑ Online. SK Malik, b. 1930, died in the 1980s, Brigadier, later Major General; Protégé of the general and ruler of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq; Malik wrote the writings "The Quranic concept of power" (155 pages, readable online) and "The Quranic concept of war", 444 pages, only printed in 500 copies, deepened the first work
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SURNAME Ibn Warraq
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author and critic of Islam
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Rajkot , India