Islamic doctrine has always been internally contested and reinterpreted

Evidence

The truth, of course, is that from the time of Muhammad to the present every single aspect of the faith (beginning with the divine origin of the Quran and the sanctity of Muhammad’s message) has been challenged, questioned, overridden, reinterpreted, counterinterpreted, discarded, and reasserted by Muslims themselves; absolutely nothing in the cliche-ridden utterances of Ibn Warraq is new to a Muslim ear, except, perhaps, for the self-loathing that makes one a bit uneasy to be in the presence of a writer so disgusted with himself. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 443

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the standard Western framing that criticism of Islam is uniquely new or forbidden, echoing Said’s own demolition of Orientalist assumptions of a static Islam.

Related

• Muslims have long practiced self-criticism within their own languages under their own names (similarity 0.86)
• Muslim intellectual critique long predates and exceeds Islamophobic polemic. (similarity 0.86)
• Every anti-Islamic charge already has a long indigenous Islamic intellectual history. (similarity 0.85)
• Islamic intellectual history is diverse, contested, and humanistic (similarity 0.85)
• Ibn Warraq’s catalogue of critics contradicts his claim no Muslim challenged doctrine (similarity 0.84)
• Radical and subversive thought has always been integral to Islamic history (similarity 0.84)
• Islamic civilization sustained vibrant internal doctrinal contestation and humanism. (similarity 0.84)
• Islamic intellectual history already contains every claim native informers recycle as new (similarity 0.83)
• Ibn Warraq marketed himself as the first secular Muslim doubter of Islam (similarity 0.83)
• Fabricated Hadiths reflect healthy cultures, with Muslim scholars policing authenticity (similarity 0.83)
• Muslim societies have always been internally divided like all others. (similarity 0.81)
• Every portrayal of Islam is an act of willed interpretation, not a description. (similarity 0.80)
• Western discourse reduces all Muslim societies to a single malevolent essence (similarity 0.80)
• Both hostile and accurate accounts converged on Muhammad’s revelation as needing explanation (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval Muslims agreed on divine origin but disputed Qur’anic interpretation (similarity 0.79)