Hans Jansen

Johannes Juliaan Gijsbert "Hans" Jansen; the words in isolation are pronounced , , and . ''Hans Jansen'' is pronounced ; ''Hans'' in isolation is pronounced .}} (17 November 1942 – 5 May 2015) was a Dutch politician, scholar of contemporary Islam and author.

Hans Jansen belonged to the "revisionists" in Islamic Studies, i.e. he fundamentally doubted the historicity of the Islamic traditions on early Islam which were written only 150 to 200 years after Muhammad. Moreover, Jansen doubted the existence of Muhammad as a historical person. Provided by Wikipedia