Abu Isa al-Warraq

Abu Isa al-Warraq
Died861-2 AD/247 AH[1]
EraAbbasid era
Known forWriter

Abu Isa al-Warraq, full name Abū ʿĪsā Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Warrāq (Arabic: أبو عيسى محمد بن هارون الوراق, died 861-2 AD/247 AH), was a 9th-century Arab skeptic scholar and critic of Islam and religion in general.[1] He was a mentor and friend of scholar Ibn al-Rawandi in whose work The Book of the Emerald he appears.[2] A modern critic of Islam, Ibn Warraq, derives his pseudonym from al-Warraq.[3]

  1. ^ a b Watt, W. M. "Abū ʿĪsā Warrāq". Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. I/3. pp. 325–326.
  2. ^ Hecht, Jennifer Michael (2003). Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson. Harper San Francisco. p. 224. ISBN 0-06-009795-7.
  3. ^ Warraq, Ibn (2010). Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays. Prometheus Books, Publishers. ISBN 9781616143121.