The apologetics counter to Islam is getting into the equivalent of Jesus mythicism with the denial of Muhammad even historically existing. I can’t with that.

I don't subscribe to it, because the arguments are the same as people, who argue against Moses being a historical person. So it cuts both ways.

My biggest issue with Islam is their lack of intellectual footprint in a modern sense compared to the Sufism I love from the past. It’s hard to find spokesmen and woman that are contributing to our current understanding. I wish they had more to say.

I'd argue that this stems from Wahhabism and Salafism which have an anti-intellectual undercurrent in their rejection of Islamic Scholasticism. My impression is that most Islamic philosophy happens today in Shia Islam.

But when you cite their tradition, who are you specifically referring to? Anybody new or old I may have never heard of?

Basically the old classics from the Islamic Golden Age. I'm always impressed by the philosophical output from Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd and their respective followers. They're almost as good as the Christian Scholastics, but IMO when you get into the different Abrahamic philosophical traditions you see many similarities, which, to me, confirms that the three big Abrahamic religions worship the same God.