Research Catalog

Title

The history of jihad : from Muhammad to ISIS / Robert Spencer.

Author

Spencer, Robert, 1962-

Publication

New York : Bombardier Books, Post Hill Press, [2018]

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Details

Description

445 pages; 22 cm

Summary

The comprehensive history of the role of war and terror in the spread of Islam. It is taken for granted, even among many Washington policymakers, that Islam is a fundamentally peaceful religion and that Islamic jihad terrorism is something relatively new, a product of the economic and political ferment of the twentieth century. But in The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS, Islamic scholar Robert Spencer proves definitively that Islamic terror is as old as Islam itself, as old as Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, who said "I have been made victorious through terror." Spencer briskly traces the 1,400-year war of Islamic jihadis against the rest of the world, detailing the jihad against Europe, including the 700-year struggle to conquer Constantinople; the jihad in Spain, where non-Muslims fought for another 700 years to get the jihadi invaders out of the country; and the jihad against India, where Muslim warriors and conquerors wrought unparalleled and unfathomable devastation in the name of their religion. Told in great part in the words of contemporary chroniclers themselves, both Muslim and non-Muslim, The History of Jihad shows that jihad warfare has been a constant of Islam from its very beginnings, and present-day jihad terrorism proceeds along exactly the same ideological and theological foundations as did the great Islamic warrior states and jihad commanders of the past. The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS is the first one-volume history of jihad in the English language, and the first book to tell the whole truth about Islam's bloody history in an age when Islamic jihadis are more assertive in Western countries than they have been for centuries. This book is indispensable to understanding the geopolitical situation of the twenty-first century, and ultimately to formulating strategies to reform Islam and defeat radical terror.

Subject

• Jihad > History
• War > Religious aspects > Islam
• Jihad
• HISTORY / Middle East
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism
• RELIGION / Islam

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"I bring you slaughter": the battles of Muhammad -- The age of the great conquests -- The Jihad comes to Spain and India -- Consolidation and oppression -- The victims of Jihad strike back -- The Jihad advances into Europe -- The Ottomans and Mughals in ascendance -- Degringolade -- Resurgence -- The West loses the will to live.

Call Number

JFD 19-2382

ISBN

• 9781682616598
• 1682616592

OCLC

1046676281

Author

Spencer, Robert, 1962- author.

Title

The history of jihad : from Muhammad to ISIS / Robert Spencer.

Publisher

New York : Bombardier Books, Post Hill Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-2382