Ibn Warraq’s catalogue of critics contradicts his claim no Muslim challenged doctrine

Evidence

There is a point where audacity plunges into stupidity. Ibn Warraq spends the entirety of his first chapter, “The Rushdie Affair”, going through a catalogue of Muslim thinkers, from Ibn Kammunah in the thirteenth century to Ali Dashti in the twentieth—courageous intellectuals who challenged, ridiculed, mocked, and denigrated aspects of their own religion—only to conclude that while Christians have succeeded in challenging the doctrinal foundations of their faith, “Muslims have yet to take even this first step”. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 472

Categorization

• SEED: The self-refuting-argument angle: a catalogue of Muslim critics disproving the author’s own thesis is a vivid case study in bad faith argumentation.

Related

• Native informers can undercut their own thesis by citing evidence against it. (similarity 0.85)
• Islamic doctrine has always been internally contested and reinterpreted (similarity 0.84)
• Muslim intellectual critique long predates and exceeds Islamophobic polemic. (similarity 0.84)
• Ibn Warraq marketed himself as the first secular Muslim doubter of Islam (similarity 0.84)
• Muslims have long practiced self-criticism within their own languages under their own names (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-Islamic polemic often rests on secondhand citation of texts authors cannot read. (similarity 0.80)
• Every anti-Islamic charge already has a long indigenous Islamic intellectual history. (similarity 0.79)
• Islamic intellectual history is diverse, contested, and humanistic (similarity 0.79)
• Ibn Warraq condemns apostasy in Islam while unable to read its primary sources. (similarity 0.78)
• Ibn Warraq’s recommended sources are dominated by religious and nationalist extremists. (similarity 0.78)