Raymond Ibrahim Expertly Eviscerates U. of Michigan Prof. Juan Cole's Hagiography of Muhammad

Raymond Ibrahim Expertly Eviscerates U. of Michigan Prof. Juan Cole’s Hagiography of Muhammad

Juan Cole. (Image source: New America/Wikimedia Commons)

In the current issue of the Middle East Quarterly, Raymond Ibrahim, Judith Friedman Rosen Writing Fellow for the Middle East Forum, reviews University of Michigan professor Juan Cole’s absurdly revisionist book on Islam’s prophet, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires.

As Ibrahim notes, “Cole presents Muhammad as a contemporary Western statesman devoted to peace, tolerance, multiculturalism, and gender equality, and sympathetic to Christian Byzantium.” To achieve this “massive distortion meant for Western consumption and catering to Western sensibilities,” Cole “either ignores or manipulates the entirety of Islamic historiography and Qur’anic exegesis.”

Click here to read the full review

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Cinnamon Stillwell

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.