Why I Am Not a Muslim

Why I Am Not a Muslim - 1995 essay by Ibn Warraq. Article “Why I Am Not a Muslim” in English Wikipedia has 24.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in Dutch Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Why I Am Not a Muslim”, its content was written by 82 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 218 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 156 times in English Wikipedia and cited 484 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12721 in August 2005
• Global: #46488 in August 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #291140 in February 2008
• Global: #342460 in January 2015

There are 16 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Dutch (nl) Why I Am Not a Muslim		27.3394
2	English (en) Why I Am Not a Muslim		24.16
3	Indonesian (id) Why I Am Not a Muslim (buku)		14.9827
4	Ukrainian (uk) Чому я не мусульманин		14.0215
5	Croatian (hr) Zašto nisam musliman		13.8902
6	Norwegian (no) Hvorfor jeg ikke er muslim		13.0726
7	French (fr) Pourquoi je ne suis pas musulman		12.872
8	Chinese (zh) 我为什么不是穆斯林		11.3473
9	Persian (fa) چرا مسلمان نیستم		9.8669
10	Arabic (ar) لماذا لست مسلما (كتاب)		9.1865

More...

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Why I Am Not a Muslim" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Why I Am Not a Muslim		300 765
2	Persian (fa) چرا مسلمان نیستم		85 893
3	Spanish (es) Por qué no soy musulmán		23 322
4	German (de) Warum ich kein Muslim bin		20 144
5	Arabic (ar) لماذا لست مسلما (كتاب)		18 586
6	Italian (it) Perché non sono musulmano		6 549
7	Norwegian (no) Hvorfor jeg ikke er muslim		5 964
8	Danish (da) Derfor er jeg ikke muslim		5 753
9	French (fr) Pourquoi je ne suis pas musulman		5 729
10	Indonesian (id) Why I Am Not a Muslim (buku)		4 540

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Why I Am Not a Muslim" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Why I Am Not a Muslim		578
2	Persian (fa) چرا مسلمان نیستم		221
3	French (fr) Pourquoi je ne suis pas musulman		55
4	Chinese (zh) 我为什么不是穆斯林		46
5	Spanish (es) Por qué no soy musulmán		37
6	German (de) Warum ich kein Muslim bin		35
7	Dutch (nl) Why I Am Not a Muslim		22
8	Italian (it) Perché non sono musulmano		21
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Why I Am Not a Muslim		21
10	Indonesian (id) Why I Am Not a Muslim (buku)		15

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Why I Am Not a Muslim" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Why I Am Not a Muslim		82
2	German (de) Warum ich kein Muslim bin		30
3	Persian (fa) چرا مسلمان نیستم		24
4	Italian (it) Perché non sono musulmano		18
5	Norwegian (no) Hvorfor jeg ikke er muslim		12
6	Spanish (es) Por qué no soy musulmán		10
7	Danish (da) Derfor er jeg ikke muslim		8
8	Ukrainian (uk) Чому я не мусульманин		8
9	Arabic (ar) لماذا لست مسلما (كتاب)		5
10	Indonesian (id) Why I Am Not a Muslim (buku)		5

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Why I Am Not a Muslim" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) لماذا لست مسلما (كتاب)		0
2	Azerbaijani (az) Niyə mən müsəlman deyiləm (kitab)		0
3	Danish (da) Derfor er jeg ikke muslim		0
4	German (de) Warum ich kein Muslim bin		0
5	English (en) Why I Am Not a Muslim		0
6	Spanish (es) Por qué no soy musulmán		0
7	Persian (fa) چرا مسلمان نیستم		0
8	French (fr) Pourquoi je ne suis pas musulman		0
9	Croatian (hr) Zašto nisam musliman		0
10	Indonesian (id) Why I Am Not a Muslim (buku)		0

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Why I Am Not a Muslim" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Why I Am Not a Muslim		156
2	Persian (fa) چرا مسلمان نیستم		96
3	Ukrainian (uk) Чому я не мусульманин		77
4	Arabic (ar) لماذا لست مسلما (كتاب)		58
5	Chinese (zh) 我为什么不是穆斯林		33
6	Croatian (hr) Zašto nisam musliman		28
7	Indonesian (id) Why I Am Not a Muslim (buku)		12
8	Spanish (es) Por qué no soy musulmán		5
9	Dutch (nl) Why I Am Not a Muslim		5
10	German (de) Warum ich kein Muslim bin		4

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لماذا لست مسلما (كتاب)
az	Azerbaijani Niyə mən müsəlman deyiləm (kitab)
da	Danish Derfor er jeg ikke muslim
de	German Warum ich kein Muslim bin
en	English Why I Am Not a Muslim
es	Spanish Por qué no soy musulmán
fa	Persian چرا مسلمان نیستم
fr	French Pourquoi je ne suis pas musulman
hr	Croatian Zašto nisam musliman
id	Indonesian Why I Am Not a Muslim (buku)
it	Italian Perché non sono musulmano
nl	Dutch Why I Am Not a Muslim
no	Norwegian Hvorfor jeg ikke er muslim
sh	Serbo-Croatian Why I Am Not a Muslim
uk	Ukrainian Чому я не мусульманин
zh	Chinese 我为什么不是穆斯林

Best Rank

English: #291140 02.2008

Global: #342460 01.2015

Best Rank

English: #12721 08.2005

Global: #46488 08.2005

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information