پیشینه '''نقد''' [[محمد|محمد بن عبدالله]]، پایهگذارپیامبر دین [[اسلام]]،مسلمانان، به سده هفتم میلادی بازمیگردد. [[اسطورهشناسی عرب|اعراب نامسلمان]] به او به دلیل آموزش [[یکتاپرستی]] انتقاد میکردند و انتقادهای [[قبایل یهودی عربستان]] از او شامل بود بر؛ بهرهبرداری از روایات و شخصیتهای کتاب مقدس عبری به صورت ناموجه،<ref name="JE2">{{Cquote|The Jews [...] could not let pass unchallenged the way in which [[Biblical and Quranic narratives|the Koran appropriated Biblical accounts and personages]]; for instance, its making Abraham an Arab and the founder of the [[Kaaba|Ka'bah]] at [[Mecca]]. The prophet, who looked upon every evident correction of his gospel as an attack upon his own reputation, brooked no contradiction, and unhesitatingly threw down the gauntlet to the Jews. Numerous passages in the Koran show how he gradually went from slight thrusts to malicious vituperations and brutal attacks on the customs and beliefs of the Jews. When they justified themselves by referring to the Bible, Muhammad, who had taken nothing therefrom at first hand, accused them of intentionally concealing its true meaning or of entirely misunderstanding it, and taunted them with being "asses who carry books" (sura lxii. 5). The increasing bitterness of this vituperation, which was similarly directed against the less numerous [[Arab Christians|Christians]] of [[Medina]], indicated that in time Muhammad would not hesitate to proceed to actual hostilities. The outbreak of the latter was deferred by the fact that the hatred of the prophet was turned more forcibly in another direction, namely, against the [[Quraysh|people of Mecca]], whose earlier refusal of Islam and whose attitude toward the community appeared to him at Medina as a personal insult which constituted a sufficient cause for [[Islam and war|war]].|author=Richard Gottheil, Mary W. Montgomery, Hubert Grimme|source=[http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10918-mohammed "Mohammed"] (1906), ''[[Jewish Encyclopedia]]'', [[Kopelman Foundation]].}}</ref> ضدیت با یهود<ref name="JE2"/> و اعلام خود به عنوان "آخرین پیامبر" بدون انجام معجزه یا داشتن الزاماتی که کتاب مقدس عبری مشخص کردهاست تا بتوان یک پیامبر واقعی فرستاده شده از طرف یهوه (خدایان یهودیان) را شناسایی کرد؛ به همین علت، یهودیان به او لقب مخرب ''ha-Meshuggah'' (عبری: מְשֻׁגָּע، "دیوانه" یا "تسخیر شده") دادند.<ref name="Stillman">{{cite book|author=[[Norman Stillman|Norman A. Stillman]]|title=The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bFN2ismyhEYC&pg=PA236|year=1979|publisher=Jewish Publication Society|isbn=978-0-8276-0198-7|page=236}}</ref><ref>[[Ibn Warraq]], ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=M8o6UZ37ppUC&pg=PA255#v=onepage&q&f=false Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism]'', p. 255.</ref><ref>Andrew G. Bostom, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=vjFNPT52XjUC&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q&f=false The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History]'', p. 21.</ref>
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