Why I Am Not a Muslim Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The Rushdie Affair	3
2	The Origins of Islam	34
3	The Problem of Sources	66
4	Muhammad and His Message	86
5	The Koran	104
6	The Totalitarian Nature of Islam	163
7	Is Islam Compatible with Democracy and Human Rights?	172
8	Arab Imperialism, Islamic Colonialism	198
9	The Arab Conquests and the Position of Non-Muslim Subjects	214
10	Heretics and Heterodoxy, Atheism and Freethought, Reason and Revelation	241
11	Greek Philosophy and Science and Their Influence on Islam	261
12	Sufism or Islamic Mysticism	276
13	Al-Ma'arri	282
14	Women and Islam	290
15	Taboos: Wine, Pigs, and Homosexuality	328
16	Final Assessment of Muhammad	344
17	Islam in the West	351
	Glossary	361
	Abbreviations of Journals and Encyclopedias	365
	Notes	367
	Selected Bibliography	383
	Index	391