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''The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion'' (2006) is a controversial book by Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch. In the book the author proposes to present an account of what Muhammad said and did from the writings of the early biographers of Muhammad such as Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi, Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari as well as the Qur'an and the hadith collections of Bukhari and Muslim. In the examination of the early sources, Spencer gives his view on the events of Muhammad's life which are invoked by contemporary Islamic clerics, governments, advocates and Yusuf al-Qaradawi today as a standard for their behaviour. The book aims to draw a connection between Muhammad's legacy and modern day practices like child marriages and divorce laws, punishments such as stoning for adultery and amputation for theft, execution for apostasy as well as the jihad and dhimmi doctrines adopted towards non-Muslims, as found in some parts of the Muslim world. The book was on the New York Times Best Seller list for the week ending October 14, 2006.〔(Best Sellers ) - NYT〕 ==Response== Karen Armstrong criticizes the book as follows: To this Spencer replied: The government of Pakistan confiscated all copies of the book and banned it on 20 December 2006 citing "objectionable material" as the cause. Spencer responded that the book does not assert anything that is not readily verifiable in the sunni sources he provides.〔(''Banned in Pakistan'' ) - FrontPageMag〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Truth About Muhammad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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