988 Muslim Scholar Concludes Prophet Mohammed Never Existed

Andrew Higgens for the Wall Street Journal:

Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany’s first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy month, doesn’t like to shake hands with Muslim women and has spent years studying Islamic scripture. Islam, he says, guides his life.

So it came as something of a surprise when Prof. Kalisch announced the fruit of his theological research. His conclusion: The Prophet Muhammad probably never existed. [More…]

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  1. I haven’t yet read the article, but I know what most people will say: a doubleface pretending to be a Muslim to ruin the faith. I even have in mind the names of few historical figures to whom he will be likened.

    But if he is truly a believer then I must admire it. Having faith in religion when you know its founder never existed and its scripture to be of human origin – obviously as any else – then one must admire it.

    After all, why should Muhammad be any more real than Jesus or Buddah 🙂

    Comment by alif — November 17, 2008 #

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