Leaving the Allah DelusionBehind begins with a pioneering study of freethought and atheism in
both Classical and Modern Islam a much neglected subject. After a look at zindiqs (atheists
heretics dualists) and dahris (materialists and atheists) Ibn Warraq examines such heretics
as Ibn al-Rawandi Al-Razi al-Ma'arri 'Umar Khayyam and Akbar the Great. In Part Two the
author discusses the fascinating story of the Islamic origins of The Treatise of The Three
Impostors (a refutation of the revealed religions of Judaism Christianity and Islam and a
scathing look at their respective prophets Moses Jesus and Muhammad) and the philosophy of
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) and its enormous influence on Western freethought. Part Three brings the
story up to the nineteenth- twentieth- and twenty-first century. We are witnessing
monumental changes in the beliefs of peoples of Islamic lands changes whose implications and
consequences have not yet sunk in. The general public both in the West and in the Middle East
is unaware of this modern phenomenon of literally thousands of young men and women from Islamic
societies leaving Islam and embracing atheism. Their presence can be felt on the internet and
the social media.
