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The Quest for the Historical Muhammad , edited by Ibn Warraq , the pen name of an anonymous author critical of Islam , is an anthology of 15 studies examining the origins of Islam and the Quran. The contributors argue that traditional Islamic accounts of its history and the origins of the Quran are fictitious and based on historical revisionism aimed at forging a religious Arab identity.

Fred Donner , an American scholar, has criticized the selection of essays, and described it as a "monument to duplicity". Donner writes that Warraq unduly favors revisionist theories in order to advance "anti-Islam polemic", forwarding that "this lopsided character makes The Quest for the Historical Muhammad a book that is likely to mislead many an unwary general reader.

Alfons Teipen, a professor of religion at Furman University , criticized the editing: "The two introductory articles Asma Afsaruddin described the book as a "partisan work" and added that Warraq "clearly has an ideological axe to grind". Asma states that "poor editing, sloppy transliteration, and ad hominem attacks on certain authors In his review of the book, As'ad AbuKhalil states that Ibn Warraq collected old writings by Orientalists who have been long discredited and added that "the more rigid and biased the Orientalists, the better for Warraq".

Ibn Warraq (born ) is the pen name of an anonymous author critical of Islam.

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Abū Muḥammad al-Muẓaffar ibn Naṣr ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq was an Arab author from Baghdad.

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