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The name ''Ibn Warraq'' (Arabic ابن وراق, most literally "son of a papermaker") is a Pseudonym that has traditionally been adopted by Dissident authors throughout the history of Islam. Among the few personal details known about his life is that he was born in 1946 in Rajkot , India , to Indian-Muslim parents who soon emigrated to Pakistan , and that he studied at the University Of Edinburgh under the scholar Montgomery Watt , who wrote a widely-read biography of Muhammad in two volumes. Ibn Warraq has written several books, some of which are scholarly and gather together critical research on such topics as the origins of the Qur'an and the life of Muhammad . Other books are more polemic and seek to promote Secular Humanist values among Muslims. In March 2006 a letter he co-signed entitled '''' with eleven other individuals (most notably Salman Rushdie ) was published in response to violent and deadly protests in the Islamic World surrounding the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad Cartoons Controversy . Books by Ibn Warraq
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