Ibn Warraq argues Arabic fluency is unnecessary for valid critique of Islam.
Evidence
Ibn Warraq begs to differ: “You do not need to know Arabic to criticize Islam or the Koran … Paul Kurts does not know Arabic but he did a great job on Islam in his book The Transcendental Temptation” — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 532
Related
- A critic of the Quran can publish on it without knowing Arabic (similarity 0.84)
- Ibn Warraq condemns apostasy in Islam while unable to read its primary sources. (similarity 0.82)
- Muslim intellectual critique long predates and exceeds Islamophobic polemic. (similarity 0.81)
- Insular academic language on Islam enables public charlatans (similarity 0.80)
- Most Muslims worldwide do not speak or understand Arabic (similarity 0.80)
- Untranslatable Arabic aesthetics were read as proof of barbarism (similarity 0.80)
- Ibn Warraq marketed himself as the first secular Muslim doubter of Islam (similarity 0.79)
- Arabist and Islamic studies resisted the revision that reformed other area studies (similarity 0.79)
- Anti-Islamic polemic often rests on secondhand citation of texts authors cannot read. (similarity 0.78)
- Claims that the Quran borrowed from Scripture were linguistically unserious (similarity 0.78)
- Ibn Warraq’s recommended sources are dominated by religious and nationalist extremists. (similarity 0.78)