Why I am not a Muslim

The Rushdie affair

The origins of Islam

The problem of sources

Muhammad and his message

The Koran

The totalitarian nature of Islam

Is Islam compatible with democracy and human rights?

Arab imperialism, Islamic colonialism

The Arab conquests and the position of non-Muslim subjects

Heretics and heterodoxy, atheism and freethought, reason and revelation

Greek philosophy and science and their influence on Islam

Sufism or Islamic mysticism

Al-Ma'arri

Women and Islam

Taboos: wine, pigs, and homosexuality

Final assessment of Muhammad

Islam in the West.