Brit scholar honoured for Islamophile Crusades study

Most of the regulars here have probably seen these links by now, but I will repeat them every now and then, in case new readers are added. From the Internet Toolbox for Islam-critics, here are some links to check out Islamic religious sources for yourself:

ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS SOURCES: THE KORAN, AHADITH AND MORE

http://www.islamicfinder.org/

Koran and ahadith search index:

http://www.quran-hadith-index.com/

The Koran:

What is the Koran?

http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/islam/blfaq_islam_quran.htm

An Index to the Koran:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/quranindex.html

Meccan and Medinan suras (chapters) of the Koran:

http://quran.al-islam.com/Index/indexe1.asp

http://www.islamweb.net/ver2/archive/article.php?lang=E&id=43487

The Koran and abrogation (the nullification of earlier revelations, replacing them with newer verses superseding them):

http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=288

The Koran, in three English translations:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/

Look up 8 English Koran translations at the same time:

http://quranbrowser.com/

More Koran in English:

http://www.equran.org/qrn/view/trans/compare/

http://www.road-to-heaven.com/noblequran.htm

http://www.quraan.com/

http://www.muslimaccess.com/quraan/

http://www.free-minds.org/quran/quran.htm

Online Koran translations in some languages other than English (French, German, Dutch, Bosnian, Albanian, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Indonesian, Turkish, Urdu, Bangla, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Malay, Thai etc):

http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/quran/

http://www.qurantime.com/

http://www.quran.org.uk/

http://www.al-sunnah.com/quran.htm

http://www.islam-guide.com/

http://www.submission.org/quran/reader/

http://www.kuran.gen.tr/

Transliteration (Arabic words written in Roman letters) of the Koran:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/transliteration/

http://transliteration.org/quran/home.htm

http://www.kuran.gen.tr/html/arapca2/

Many different recorded audio recitations (The art of “Qiraa’aat”) of the Koran:

http://www.islamweb.net/ver2/engblue/audio.php?page=rewaya

The renowned tafsir (Koran commentary and explanation) of Ibn Kathir (Note that some of the original Arabic quotations have been omitted from this English translation):

http://tafsir.com/

More tafsir:

http://tafseercomparison.org/

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/maududi/

http://www.youngmuslims.ca/online_library/tafsir/syed_qutb/index.htm

About principles of tafsir:

http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Tafseer/Ulum/

http://www.quran.org.uk/ieb_quran_tafseer.htm

A non-Muslim, critical view of the Koran and Islam:

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/

http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/quran_teaches.htm

http://www.atheists.org/Islam/mohammedanism.html

http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Text/index.html

http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol6No1/HV6N1PRPhenixHorn.html

http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol3No1/HV3N1Griffith.html

http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/AbulKasem41205.htm

http://www.studytoanswer.net/myths_ch1.html

The Koran's 164 Jihad verses:

http://www.angelfire.com/moon/yoelnatan/koranwarpassages.htm

More about Jihad:

http://www.secularislam.org/jihad/index.htm

http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4343

Taqiyya and kitman - "deceptive Jihad" or lying for the sake of Islam:

http://knowislam.info/forum//viewtopic.php?t=145

Ahadith, the Sunna (The personal example, or custom and practice, of Muhammad and his companions):

The status of the Sunna in Islam:

http://www.qss.org/articles/status.html

The ahadith (Traditions of the sayings or practice of Muhammad and his companions. One of the main sources of Islamic law) of al-Bukhari and others:

http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/islam/blfaq_islam_hadith.htm

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/searchhadith.html

About hadith collections, Islamic perspective:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/scienceofhadith/brief1/

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/scienceofhadith/atit.html

Some highlights from the hadith:

http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4103

"Sirat Rasoul Allah", The earliest biography of Muhammad, an abridged version:

http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sira/index.htm

List of people killed for opposing Muhammad:

http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1142

"Muhammad and the Meccans: Who Antagonized Whom? Examining Muslims' Justification for Muhammad's Atrocities":

http://answering-islam.org.uk/Shamoun/antagonizing.htm

About Islamic slavery:

http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=216

Letters and treaties of Muhammad (Islamic translations and presentations):

http://www.islamicresources.com/member/modules.php?name=Sections&op=listarticles&secid=5

The Constitution of Medina, 622:

http://www.constitution.org/cons/medina/macharter.htm

About sharia (Lit. path or road),"Islamic law", the law system inspired by the Koran and the Sunna of Muhammad which is incorporated in the recognized traditions, as well as the work and consensus of Muslim scholars over the two first centuries of Islam:

http://i-cias.com/e.o/sharia.htm

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Sharia

The four Sunni schools of Islamic sharia law (Madhhab):

http://www.uga.edu/islam/shariah.html#law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhahib

http://muslim-canada.org/sitedex.htm#judicial

http://muslim-canada.org/mylove.htm

About the Sunna and jurisprudence:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/law/fiqhussunnah/

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muwatta/

About Sufism ("Islamic mysticism" or "Islamic spirituality", the esoteric aspect of Islam):

http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/Sufism.html

http://www.opposing-religious-views.com/Islam_Sufism.html

http://world.std.com/~habib/sufi.html

http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/

The "Mathnawi" of Jalal'uddin Rumi, abridged version:

http://muslim-canada.org/sufi/book0rumi.html

About "Quranites", "Koran only" - Muslims who reject the ahadith completely:

http://www.opposing-religious-views.com/Islam_Quranites.html

http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=342

About "Submitters", followers of the late Rashad Khalifa:

http://www.opposing-religious-views.com/Islam_Submitters.html

About Ahmadiyya:

http://www.opposing-religious-views.com/Islam_Ahmadiyya.html

Some Shia Muslim resources:

A Shi'ite Encyclopedia:

http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/

A multi-media site by Richard Hooker:

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/SHIA/SHIA.HTM

Shia Library:

http://al-shia.com/

Sunni website critical of Shias:

http://www.allaahuakbar.net/shiites/word_of_advice_to_shiites.htm

http://www.allaahuakbar.net/shiites/index.htm

http://www.allaahuakbar.net/shiites/KAFI.HTM

Shia ahadith (Traditions about Muhammad and his companions) of Al kafi:

http://hahsim.s5.com/kafi.html

Sayings of Imam Ali (Muhammad's son-in-law, first Shia Imam):

http://www.al-islam.org/nahjul/index.htm

Shia tafsir (Koran commentary and explanation):

http://www.almizan.org/

Other:

http://www.al-islam.org/short/martyrdom/

http://al-islam.org/ashura/

http://www.shiachat.com/

Much as I look forward to reading Robert's book on the reality of crusades, i know that it will be an honest book and that he will not be the recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars from obscenely oil rich arabs as payment for perverting history.
Like the nine tenths of the iceberg that lies hidden below the surface, this is the invisible jihad or thejihad of stelath.
what is the going rate for claiming that ISrael has no right to exist or "proving" that only handfuls of Jews died in the concentration camps?
How much for taking up a chair of Islamic studies to further the cause of Jihad in western universities?
Of course it takes two to tango and many of the west's academic who take up this dishonest work are indeed as corrup as their Arab paymasters.

I now know what I want my wife to get me for my birthday. Thank you Mr. Spencer!

I will definitely be buying Mr. Spencer's book.

I don't know what was in her book but you have to be wary of anything that the Saudie's reward. And to think I am from Edinburgh and hope my kids go to Edinburgh Uni. What a carry on, I might have to send them to Aberdeen or *gasp* Glasgow !!

hmmm, another book to buy...but have to wait 'till fall.
How abt opening a online shop or something ?

cheers

The University of Edinburgh should take no pride in Carole Hillenbrand's receipt of an award that, outside of the categories of science (which are awarded to plausibly worthy, if always non-Jewish, recipients)and Arabic literature, to those who have been of "service to Islam." This means that the Prize Committee understood that Hillenbrand's highly tendentious work on the Crusades was indeed "of service of Islam," above all in taking the Crusades completely out of any historical context, beginning with the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Other winners of the "presitigious" King Faisal Award -- a pitiful attempt at an "Islamic" Nobel, where the real or quasi-deserving Westerners are thrown in to camouflage the prizes to such wonderful people as a Sudanese Field-Marshal [sic], one Swar Al-Dahab, who won "the award i nappreciation of nis noble activities which the Arab and Islamic worlds are proud of" in the words of Prince Sultan, who is "chairman of the Supreme Dawa Committee." Yes, we all know what "noble activities" a high-ranking Sudanese general performs in the service of Islam, especialy in the southern Sudan with those pesky Christians and animists.

Another award-winner of the Faisal Prize has been the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed, who along with his antisemitism, is a stout supporter of the disguised "jizya" on the Hindus and Chinese in Malaysia, through the so-called Bumiputra system. In his speech to the O.I.C.(Organization of Islamic Countries) a year or two ago, this King Faisal Prize winner showed that his idea of Muslim "achievement" was limited entirely to acquisition of weapons technology.

Carole Hillenbrand deserves her tainted award. But why should the University of Edinburgh (where the Anglican clergyman, and apologist of Islam, W. Montgomery Watt, once taught) tarnish itslef by claiming to take pride that anyone on its faculty had produced the kind of tendentious work that would be found, in Saudi eyes, worthy of such an award.

That is the question.

Meanwhile, if you want to find out something about the Crusades that is accurate, and not likely to be winning the King Faisal Prize anytime soon (one wonders if Esposito has yet been given it, or Armstrong), read Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith. If I discover that he has written a review of Hillenbrand, I shall be happy to post it here.

Yessir - nothing says it like winning the "King Faisal prize for Islamic studies" given by none other than the Saudi King himself. Perhaps in due course, the good professor will remover her nose from Faisal's ass and look at the world around her. I'm not holding my breath - I expect her next book will be validating the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

I too have noticed that Muslims never want to talk about WHY the crusades happened,the bloody
colonialism of Islam slaughtered thousands and stole their land and possesions.

Dear Mr. Spencer,

For your book, consider a word I have been using in answer to the Islamic cries of "Crusaders!" and "Crusades!": my neologism- "THE CRESCADES". For the original Muslim onslaught against the Infidel World under the Crescent banner.

Since they started this war 400 years before any Europeans ever thought to answer it with a "Crusade", we neeed a word for their initial crime.

It is now considered by the mainstream press and popular mind as if the Islamic warriors were just 'out for a stroll' (with swords and Korans) across North Africa, Spain, the Middle East, India and out to the Indonesian islands.

Write on.

profitsbeard:

E-mail that idea to Spencer. He doesn't read all the comments and might miss it here.

CGW

johnb, nose in Faisal's ass and not holding your breath, in two adjecent sentences was nauseatingly graphic. Thanks for the imagery :)

No wonder the honoured prof. Hillenbrand has presented us with this insightful and unignorant account of the Crusades. This is what you stumble across at first google of her works:

Defending Islam

Authors: Carole Hillenbrand
Publication Date: 1 Sep 2005
ISBN: 0752429612

Edinburgh university's ME school appears a no-go place now.