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Wrong from first to last: the charlatanism of Edward Said.(Culture)(Critical essay)
IBN WARRAQ is an apostate and a convert--an apostate from Islam and a convert to the glories of Western civilisation. As an apostate from "the religion of peace", naturally he uses a pseudonym. Ibn Warraq displays the enthusiasm of the convert, but it is an informed and thoughtful enthusiasm. His Defending the West is another demolition of Edward Said's meretricious and tendentious Orientalism.
Said's book is clearly so full of errors, misrepresentations, and sins of omission and commission, that criticising it is like shooting fish in a barrel. Indeed, there is something of an intellectual cottage industry in demolishing Said. I particularly liked the comment ...
- Ibn Warraq is the nom de plume of a Pakistani Muslim living in the United...
- Magazine article from: National Review February 27, 2006 700+ words
Ibn Warraq is the nom de plume of a Pakistani Muslim living in the United States and writing about Islam as he sees it. He has been circulating...
- Put paid to said.(Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's...
- Magazine article from: National Review Daniels, Anthony April 7, 2008 700+ words
...of Said's argument intact. Ibn Warraq goes for the Carthaginian solution...ridiculous. In case after case, Ibn Warraq shows that the work of Western...handmaidens, of the worst aspects of European imperialism. Ibn Warraq uses the occasion of his refutation...
- The Quest for the Historical Muhammad.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies Teipen, Alfons H. June 22, 2003 700+ words
...Historical Muhammad. Edited by Ibn Warraq. Amherst, NY: Prometheus...between these two extremes. Ibn Warraq's work represents scholarship...on more traditional, European scholars of Islam and...and the endnotes. While Ibn Warraq's selection includes...
- An ignored manifesto; Intellectuals defend free speech.(OPED)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times March 17, 2006 700+ words
...WASHINGTON TIMES Last month, 12 mainly European-based, mainly Muslim or ex-Muslim...Rushdie, and Pakistani-born writer Ibn Warraq. Rounding out the list were a few French...Has anyone got that Christian kaffir 'Ibn Warraq's' real name yet?" Scrolling through...
- Anti-Semitism in Europe; Media chokes the free flow of ideas.(OPED)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times November 28, 2003 700+ words
...report during another shocking European upsurge in anti-Semitic...exposes the lengths to which European bureaucrats will go to suppress...Muslim anti-Semitism and European denial, for example - must...s worth noting that author Ibn Warraq has heard from US publishing...
- Answering Edward said.(Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's...
- Magazine article from: Policy Review Berkowitz, Peter June 1, 2008 700+ words
IBN WARRAQ. Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism. PROMETHEUS...emphasis), his "training and practice" as "a teacher of the mainly European humanities" fits him for "the kind of deliberately meditated and analyzed...
- Confronting Islamist totalitarianism.
- Magazine article from: Middle East Quarterly June 22, 2006 700+ words
...occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for...International English Antoine Sfeir, editor, Cahiers de l'Orient Ibn Warraq, author, Why I Am Not a Muslim Philippe Val, editor, Charlie...
- American Freedom Alliance, a New Think Tank and Activist Network, Established...
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 10, 2007 700+ words
...will be honored together with Muslim dissident author, Ibn Warraq. On June 10-11, the Alliance will hold an international...honor killings and the oppression of women within Muslim European communities, for fear of offending Muslim sensitivities...
