The Truth About Muhammad

Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion

De: Robert Spencer

Narrado por: James Adams

In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times best-selling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam - perhaps the first such portrait in half a century - unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad's life that continue to affect our world today. Spencer details Muhammad's development from a preacher of hellfire and damnation into a political and military leader who expanded his rule by force of arms, promising his warriors luridly physical delights in Paradise if they were killed in his cause. He explains how the Qur'an's teaching on warfare against unbelievers developed, with constant war to establish the hegemony of Islamic law as the last stage.

©2006 Robert Spencer (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc.

Educational but not boring

As someone who knew nothing about Muhammad I was pleased to find something that explains who he was and why he’s important. I appreciated that the stories were put forth in chronological order and their relevance explained without blatant dogmatic condemnation. In my opinion, as an American believer in Yahweh and follower of his son Yeshua Hamashia, this brings insight and understanding of the origins of the Muslim/Islamic ideology.

Enlightening

Here is current information not found in news reports, a perspective taken from Islamic documents. In light of hair-trigger reactions, it's amazing that the author and publisher decided to provide this insight.

Good to learn about Muhammad

Given the current political situation in the Muslim world, it's important for westerners to learn about the prophet Muhammad and the origins of Islam. This book presents a clear, concise account of the prophet and his religion, while stimulating thought--and, hopefully, discussion on the topic. Makes for good, interesting listening.

Outstanding!

This book sets out a clear and concise overview of Islam’s history and doctrines. It is geared primarily towards Westerners who only know what they have watched on television about its tenets and their danger to peaceful Western countries. There have already been comments here to the effect that the author “cherry picked his facts.” This is utterly absurd. Anyone who has read the Koran, Sira, and Hadith know that every statement in this book is based in Islamic doctrine. The facts are the facts.

While Judaism and Christianity have both had violent periods in their histories, these faiths have bee open to scholarly and religious debate and an evolution in their practice. There are no churches or synagogues that advocate stoning women for adultery these days, there are are mosques that do. They also allow marriage of 9 year old girls.

The reason for this disparity is that Islam is frozen in the 7th Century. Mohammed is set forth as the “ideal man,” so anything he did, from having sex with a 9 year old to female circumcision to owning slaves is permitted. Although the majority of mosques do not advocate for these practices, there are a great many who do across the Muslim world.

For those in the West, ignore this at your peril.

Not completely objective but thorough and fascinating

The author presents a detailed look at the life of the prophet of Islam while being clearly independent of any of the biases that maybe present in modern apologetic work. With that said he certainly does have his own (largely anti Islamic) biases and criticisms of other scholars that I can’t get behind either. Performance is good though some of the Arabic pronunciation encounters issues. Overall very much worth the read though despite any flaws.

real good book,

hard to find a accurate book about who muhammad really was without some bs made up bias stuff, a.must read

Great history fused with modern implications

I enjoyed listening to it because it was well authored, not too long, and informative.
I would recommend it to everyone for a general idea of Islam.

A great listen.

It's very intriguing information, which is conveyed in a clear and entertaining manner. I literally flew threw it.

sobering

This book is a careful and scholarly analysis of Muhammad and his legacy based on respected islamic sources.

Muhammad is revered by something close to one billion people and held up as an example of how his followers should live their lives. His apologists often point out his wisdom, his charisma, and the respect he earned from his contemporaries. What his islamic apologists don't mention to non-muslims is that he was a bloodthirsty warlord who married a seven year old girl, his daughter-in-law, and 10 to 15 other women. He conquered the Arabian peninsula in the name of his new religion, and repeatedly commanded his followers to kill non-muslims "wherever they found them". His example reverberates to this day. The "religion of peace" is often anything but, and no amount of wishful thinking will make it so. The West sorely needs a better understanding of the life of Muhammad and the example he set.

Good read, informative, worth a listen.

I enjoyed the book, and the pace of the reading. The author appeared to be a credible source, and it is written from a factual perspective. Great care was taken to not offend any historical or religious perspective of Muhammad, with key statements referenced to their source. I enjoyed the book (twice for effect), but did take some of the statements as the author’s perspective, subject to my own belief system and personal perspective. I recommend this book. If you are truly interested in Muhammad, this is a good start, and you should do some more reading from different sources. This was my first introduction to the life and background of Muhammad. It was very interesting; the speaking voice pace was just right.