Marxist critics read the Qur’an as bourgeois ideology promising workers otherworldly paradise

Evidence

Klimovich sought to lay bare its internal contradictions. It was, he maintained, a document drafted on behalf of the exploiters – the mercantile bourgeoisie of Mecca and Medina – that promised the exploited masses a paradise in the never-never that was the main force behind Islam. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 419

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• Soviet historiography explained Islam as bourgeois class ideology (similarity 0.78)