Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires by Juan ColeNew York: Nation Books, 2018. 336 pp.Reviewed by Raymond IbrahimAuthor of Sword and Scimitar Middle East QuarterlySummer 2019 (view PDF) Note: Cole's ludicrous pro-Islamic revisionist history, which I review below, is representative of the only sort of history that CAIR and its Islamist allies … [Read more...]
Reversing the Roles of Crusade and Jihad
Editor’s note: The following book review by Raymond Ibrahim of William R. Polk’s book, Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the Global North (Yale University press, Jan. 2018) first appeared in the Christian Research Journal. -------- From beginning to end, Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the … [Read more...]
Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World
Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World By Christian C. Sahner Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. 360 pp. $39.95.Reviewed by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East QuarterlySpring 2019 Sahner, associate professor of Islamic history at Oxford University, informs the reader that Christian Martyrs under … [Read more...]
Crusade and Jihad
Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the Global North By William R. PolkNew Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 550 pp. $37.50Reviewed by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East QuarterlyWinter 2019 Crusade and Jihad is characteristic of the many misrepresentations of history that emanate from the Middle East studies establishment. … [Read more...]
Shariah Law: What Everyone Needs to Know
by John L. Esposito and Natana J. Delong-BasReviewed by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East QuarterlyFall 2018 Shariah Law: What Everyone Needs to Know. By John L. Esposito and Natana J. Delong-Bas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 352 pp. $74 ($16.95, paper). The overarching theme of Esposito and Delong-Bas's book is that the sacred law of Islam is inherently just … [Read more...]