1. Ibn Warraq was born on 1946 and is the pen name of an anonymous author critical of Islam.
13 Facts About Ibn Warraq
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Ibn Warraq is the founder of the Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society and used to be a senior research fellow at the Center for Inquiry, focusing on Quranic criticism.
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Ibn Warraq adopted the pseudonym in 1995 when he completed his first book, entitled Why I Am Not a Muslim.
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Ibn Warraq is a controversial figure among his contemporaries as many academic specialists in Islamic history consider him to be polemical, overly revisionist and lacking in expertise.
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Ibn Warraq claims to have been born in Rajkot, Gujarat in British India and his family migrated to the newly independent Pakistan in 1947.
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Ibn Warraq had no idea that Pakistan had no relations with Israel and the scholarship embarrassed his father.
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In October 2007, Ibn Warraq participated in an Intelligence Squared debate, "We Should Not Be Reluctant to Assert the Superiority of Western Values," in London.
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Ibn Warraq argued in favor of the motion; arguing on the same side as him were Douglas Murray and David Aaronovitch, while their opponents were Tariq Ramadan, William Dalrymple, and Charles Glass.
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Ibn Warraq is the founder of the Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society.
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Ibn Warraq has been on the advisory board of the International Free Press Society, and been associated with the counter-jihad movement.
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Ibn Warraq continued writing with several works examining the historiography of the Qur'an and Muhammad.
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In 2005, Ibn Warraq spent several months working with Christoph Luxenberg, who wrote about Syriac vs Arabic interpretation of Quranic verse.
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Personally endangered, yet unremittingly vocal, Ibn Warraq leads a trend.