Ibn Warraq (born 1946) is the pen name of a secularist author of Pakistani origin who founded the Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society. He is a senior research fellow at the Center for Inquiry focusing on Qur'anic criticism. Warraq gathered world notice through his historiographies of the early centuries of the Islamic timeline and has published works which question mainstream conceptions of the period. He is the author of seven books, including Why I Am Not a Muslim (1995), The Origins of the Koran (1998), The Quest for the Historical Muhammad, (2000), What the Koran Really Says: Language, Text and Commentary (2002) and Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism, (2007). He has also spoken at the United Nations "Victims of Jihad" conference organized by the International Humanist and Ethical Union alongside speakers such as Bat Ye'or, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Simon Deng.