Raphael Israeli reviews Andrew Bostom's superlative [1] Legacy of Jihad in [2] The Jerusalem Post:

In an extensive collection of primary documents and commentary, Andrew Bostom shows that Islamic jihad has always used war to compel the whole world to embrace Islam or live under its yoke

The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims
Edited by Andrew Bostom
Prometheus
750pp., $28

In our moribund world, traumatized by the Islamic holy war (jihad) on the one hand and by political correctness on the other, we find ourselves helpless in the face of worldwide Muslim terror and dumbfounded by the conspiracy of silence and permissiveness that allows abominable acts to unfold, but forbids publicly naming them.

Indeed, instead of calling horrendous acts what they are, more and more voices in the scholarly world, out of ill-advised squeamishness or avoidance, have elected either to ignore the Islamic import of the horrors or to "understand" and thus legitimize them. This is analogous to explaining the Mongol rampages or the Nazi massacres with sympathy for the perpetrators rather than to unequivocally condemn them.

The dhimmi state of mind submits to the aggressor instead of asserting its rights against him. It refrains from publicly teaching the nature and history of jihad, avoids condemning it under any circumstances, skirts any discussion embarrassing to Muslims and hides incriminating facts concerning Muslim conduct.

It is no wonder, therefore, that while numerous Muslim legal treatises and monographs on jihad describe (in native languages) the harsh realities of international relations as conceived in Muslim political theory, in Western languages it is hard to find all-encompassing anthologies on this essential aspect of Islamic law.

This is the unique contribution of Andrew Bostom, a prominent professor of medicine, who has taken a keen interest in the recent outbreaks of Muslim terror. He faced this dearth of sources accessible to the Western intellectual and determined to attack the problem himself. In his search, he unearthed many unpublished sources and segments of published texts that were improperly contextualized from a wide array of readings and translations. He then had original essays translated into English, borrowed translations from Western scholars, excerpted texts from secondary and tertiary sources, and created, for the first time in a Western language, a documentary history of jihad and the fate of non-Muslims under Muslim rule.

Read it all.