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The most foundational and essential belief in Islam, and in all the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), is that Yahweh/YHWH/YHVH, God, or Allah, is that "God" exists and there is the only one true revealed God (monotheism) - or monotheistic Yahwehism. As this is the core of the Tanakh (Judaism), Bible (Christianity), and Qur'an/Koran (Islam), questions concerning the source of, and the validity of, this monotheistic Deity belief would raise significant doubt as to the Holy Book's validity as the word of God/Yahweh/Allah and to the very foundation of these belief systems. These core scriptural documents also establish the precept and precedent accepting predecessor society/culture holy scripture and documentation of revealed Yahwehism and integrating and propagating core attributes and beliefs (though with some variation and conflict with peripherals). Yet, within the Holy Scriptures of predecessor Babylonian, Ugarit and Canaanite, and early Israelite religions/societies/cultures, the evidence points to the evolution and growth in the belief of the monothesitic Yahweh Deity from a polytheistic foundation of the El [El Elyon] (the Father God/God Most High) God pantheon. Yahweh (one of many sons of El) was a subordinate fertility/rain/warrior local desert God whom, through a process of convergence, differentiation and displacement (synthesis and syncretism), was elevated from polytheism to henotheism (a monolatry for Yahweh; Yahweh is in charge, there are other Gods to worship) to an aggressive monolatrist polytheistic belief (Yahweh is the most important God, there exists other Gods but worship of these other Gods is to be actively rejected) to, finally, a monotheistic belief system (there is and, somehow, always has been, only Yahweh) as documented in the revealed holy scriptures of these religions and cultures that directly influenced and/or became the Biblical Israelites.

For ones edification, here are some physical archeological and linguistic anthropological evidential sources documenting the development and growth of monotheistic Yahwehism/Allahism from a historical polytheistic foundation of revealed holy scripture to the monotheism of early Biblical Israelites:

• [The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel](http://www.amazon.com/The-Early-History-God-Biblical/dp/080283972X) by Mark Smith<br />

• The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts by Mark S. Smith
  
• A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
  
• The Religion of Ancient Israel (Library of Ancient Israel) by Patrick D. Miller
  
• Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches by Ziony Zevit
  
• Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan (Library Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) by John Day
  
• God in Translation: Deities in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Biblical World by Mark S. Smith
  
  While limited to starting with the Hebrew Bible as a basis, and not addressing much pre-Torah scripture related to Yahweh, the following takes a look at:
  
  
• Monotheism, Polytheism, Monolatry, or Henotheism? Toward an Assessment of Divine Plurality in the Hebrew Bible, by Michael S. Heiser, PhD
  
  While a College Senior Thesis (and the perception therefore of a less credible scholarly/appeal to authority level), the following is a good source of other reference material:
  
  
• The Ascension of Yahweh: The Origins and Development of Israelite Monotheism from the Afrasan to Josiah by Andrew Halladay
  
  Some of the on-line summaries/arguments which related to the above argument/position are:
  
  
• Are Yahweh and El the same god OR different gods?
  
• Ugarit and the Bible
  
• Israelite Religion to Judaism: the Evolution of the Religion of Israel By David Steinberg
  
• The evolution of God
  
  Traces of the foundational polytheistic (many many gods, El is in charge) belief, and it's evolution into a man-driven politically and militarily motivated monolatry for Yahweh (Yahweh is in charge, acknowledgement of other gods) to monotheistic Yahwehism (where Yahweh is and, somehow, always been the one and only god “There is no god but Allah”/“You shall have no other gods before Me"), litter the Torah and Old Testament of the Bible which survived editing and redaction. To a lesser extent (as it is based upon already redacted material and with better editing/explicit rationalizations already included) the New Testament and Qur'an also show linkages to this foundational polytheistic belief. Given that the tradition of monotheistic Yahwehism is the essential foundation of the Abrahamic Religions, this falsehood propagates to any/all doctrine/dogma/claims dependent/contingent upon this foundation - rendering these religious tenets/doctrine/dogma/"truths", at best, demonstratively invalid; and nominally, morally and culturally reprehensible.
  
  With the dubious claim of monotheistic Yahwehism that the Abrahamic God is based upon, and that serves as the most essential foundation of the Tanakh/Bible/Qur'an narrative, then any claim that the Tanakh/Bible/Qur'an is valid as a source for any "truth" or "knowledge" concerning Yahweh/Allah, and, Jesus the Christ, is at best, highly questionable and suspect, and nominally, completely "non-truthful."
  
  To continue, what evidence is there that the Prophet Muḥammad () was even aware of the origin story of worship Yahweh/Allah that predates the information available to the local contemporary Jews and Christians? What sayings (direct Qur'an or first person strong Hadith) are directly attributable to the Prophet Muhammad that demonstrate that the Prophet was even aware of the Holy Scriptures of predecessor Babylonian, Ugarit and Canaanite, and/or early Israelite religions/societies/cultures depicting Yahweh in a polytheistic pantheon as a subordinate deity? From my investigations, the Prophet Muhammad was ignorant of the politically and militarily motivated synthesis and syncretism of the El Elyon polytheistic pantheon into a henotheism (a monolatry for Yahweh; Yahweh is in charge, there are other Gods to worship) to an aggressive monolatrist polytheistic belief (Yahweh is the most important God, there exists other Gods but worship of these other Gods is to be actively rejected) to, finally, a monotheistic belief system (there is and, somehow, always has been, only Yahweh), where the later (the monotheistic Yahwehism of Judaism as presented within the Pentateuch/Old Testament) appears to be foundation upon which was revealed to Muhammad via the intermediary Angel Gabriel/Jibra'il. The argument that the essential monotheistic Yahwehism was somehow corrupted by adherents to The Majestic, The Supreme, The Creator Allah/Yahweh, and then somehow corrected at a later date, seems to better fit an apologetic stance formulated post-Prophet to attempt to explain the discovery of knowledge concerning the origin story of Yahwehism adherence rather than any knowledge the Prophet Muhammad had/received/documented.
  
  Finally, Islamic presuppositional apologetics, as based upon the revelations of Gabriel/Jibra'il via the Prophet (), and having the position of monotheistic Yahwehism as the source/author of knowledge and the absolute standard for facts/logic/reason/science/morality/etc., is shown to also be invalid as a result of the fully dependent, essential, and foundational tenet of monotheistic Yahwehism having been shown to be fallacious, fundamentally flawed and refuted. To argue against, or refute, the position of the fallacy of monotheistic Yahwehism, and to support presuppositional apologetics, the burden of proof is upon the adherent to Yahweh/Allah to provide credible evidence or proof of the existence of monotheistic Yahweh Deity against the presuppositional position of the null hypothesis {that supernatural deities do not exist} as exemplified by the agnostic atheist baseline position, and against the argument against monotheistic Yahwehism via Yahweh's Allah's polytheistic origin narratives as exemplified by the gnostic atheist held position that was presented above against monotheistic Yahwehism.
  
  I posit that because of the above rational gnostic atheist position against monotheistic Allahism, that Islam is irrational. Refute the above argument to prove me wrong.
  
  OP, if you made it this far - good for you :D.
  
  EDIT: TL;DR. OP's argument that was intended to show that atheism is irrational is, instead, shown to be fallacious. As a bonus, a rational argument to show the fallacy of monotheistic Allahism/yahwehism is presented.

If anyone is interested in a physical edition instead and an explanation for why the price differences are so jarringly different I explain in a blog post.

Update: Due to popular feedback, I decided to make split versions of the ebook edition for anyone who found 2554 pages too daunting but are still interested in reading my book. In case any of you are still interested.

Part I Only.

Part II Only.

Explanation on pricing can be read here.

You can try Annie Laurie Gaylor's book: http://www.amazon.com/Women-Without-Superstition-Gods-Masters/dp/1877733091/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411346976&sr=8-1&keywords=annie+laurie+gaylor

Women Without Superstition: No Gods, No Masters

EDITED TO ADD: Also, Susan Jacoby's book Freethinkers has some excellent portrayals of the women of atheism.

The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti is an interesting read on this subject.

Try reading I Kissed Dating Goodbye, which is similar advice aimed at the high school/college-aged crowd.

> I don't know if the women are dismissed so much as they aren't making themselves the go-to names.

I'd like to throw some names at you and see if you recognize any of them:

Greta Christina

Jennifer McCreight

Rebecca Watson

Rebecca Goldstein

All of these women have been extremely active in the atheist/skeptical community. Two of them have been harassed to the degree that they're no longer as active. None of them are in any danger of receiving the sort of attention or acclaim attributed to Drs. Dawkins, Dennett or Harris in spite of their work.

Is it really because they're not aggressive enough? Or is it because people aren't paying attention?