[span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"] Russ wrote:[/span][br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"][div style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"]Wow, did you have any trouble getting the book? Is there any controversy around it Trollio? I cant beleive that the Muslim community didnt cry foul and try to burn everything surround a book nit picking their Koran. [/div] [div style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"] [/div] [span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"]Other than being dry, is it pretty good?[/span]
No trouble getting it, but you guessed it, the author (whose name is not really Ibn Warraq -- that means 'son of a bookseller') is under a fatwa, and if they ever found out who he was, they would most definitely kill him in a heartbeat.
It's quite good for what it is. The best thing about Ibn Warraq is that we do know that he is a former Muslim from South Asia, so his books are not coming from the "[insert faith here] is better than Islam" perspective, but from a guy who grew up in and lived his life as a rather devout Muslim at one point.
