The 100th reader review of The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS was posted at Amazon today. I’d send the reviewer a bottle of champagne, but somehow I don’t think he or she drinks: 1.0 out of 5 stars typical hate for a money maker title By Amazon Customer on November 25, 2018 nothing […]
“We all owe Robert Spencer a debt of gratitude” for The History of Jihad
The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS is the first and only comprehensive history of jihad in the English language. Get it here. “A Review of The History of Jihad. By Robert Spencer,” by Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch, November 21, 2018: Robert Spencer is a leading authority on Islam and the challenges and risks it […]
“The History of Jihad contains information that those entrusted with our foreign and domestic policies need to know”
Steve Gruber is a conservative talk show host with 25 affiliates in Michigan. I am grateful to him for this superb review of my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. This book is the first and only comprehensive narrative history of the entire phenomenon of jihad, from Spain to India and many, […]
“In a time of cowardice, the scholarly exposure of the greatest dangers of our time by Robert Spencer is priceless”
Bat Ye’or, the pioneering historian of dhimmitude (the institutionalized subjugation of Jews and Christians under Islamic law) and the author of many important books, including Eurabia, The Dhimmi, and The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam, read my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS and had this to say: In a time […]
Video: David Wood and Robert Spencer refute Muslim debater Mohammed Hijab’s lies about the history of jihad
Tuesday evening David Wood and I spent an hour shredding some fashionable and politically motivated lies about Islamic history. Get the book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which does a great deal more of this, here.
Andrew McCarthy on The History of Jihad: “Those who care to preserve free societies must confront this history”
Andrew C. McCarthy, bestselling author, former federal prosecutor, and National Review contributing editor, read my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS and had this to say: Jihad is not mere terrorism. Ironic as it may seem, that is Western wishful thinking. From its inception, as Robert Spencer incontestably illustrates, jihad has been […]
Robert Spencer’s History of Jihad “marshals the facts that put the lie to the delusions of Western appeasers”
Historian Bruce Thornton, a Research Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and Professor of Classics and Humanities at the California State University, and author of Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization; Democracy’s Dangers & Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama, as well as The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, […]
Geert Wilders on History of Jihad: “A fantastic book, an absolute must-read for all freedom-loving people!”
Dutch freedom fighter Geert Wilders read my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, and had this to say: Robert Spencer is one of my heroes. One of the most knowledgeable experts on Islam in the world. A giant. He has once again produced an invaluable and much needed book, a fantastic […]
The History of Jihad explodes prof’s claim that Hindus lived in peace under Muslim rulers in India
When they conquered India, Muslims were benevolent and tolerant, right? That’s what Rutgers Newark professor Audrey Truschke would have you believe. “When Hindus and Muslims lived in harmony,” by Aijaz Zaka Syed, Saudi Gazette, August 19, 2017: AT a time when the Muslims are being hunted like animals on the benign watch of the BJP, […]
Historian Efraim Karsh on Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad: “A tour de force…a must-read”
Efraim Karsh, the author of the acclaimed book Islamic Imperialism: A History, read an advance copy of my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS and had this to say: From the first Arab-Islamic empire of the mid-seventh century to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the story of Islam has been the […]
David Horowitz on The History of Jihad: “Most powerful weapon in the anti-jihad fight that anyone’s produced”
David Horowitz, founding president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and author of Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey, read my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS and had this to say: The most important book you will read about the fourteen-hundred-year war that Islamic jihadists have waged on us, and the […]
“The most terrifying book in print in any language”
Reader reviews of my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can order here now, have been quite positive. Here are two good ones from Amazon: Amazon Customer 5.0 out of 5 stars History of 1400 years of Islamic imperialist aggression September 4, 2018 One of the most popular Islamic […]
“Once every decade or two, there are books that change the cultural argument. THE HISTORY OF JIHAD is such a book.”
“Once every decade or two, there are books that are so well conceived that they change the cultural argument. In the 21stCentury, THE HISTORY OF JIHAD by Robert Spencer is just such a book.” Thank you, Dr. Baehr! You can order his book here. “Robert Spencer’s Book THE HISTORY OF JIHAD FROM MUHAMMAD TO ISIS,” […]
The shocking history of the jihad against India — never before told in the West — included in The History of Jihad
Because Hindus were not “People of the Book,” the centuries-long jihad against India was more brutal and bloody than jihad warfare in Europe — and most English-speaking readers are not aware of the full, shocking story of jihad activity in India at all. Forewarned is forearmed. The violent ideology that fueled that jihad has never […]
The History of Jihad: A challenge to the political and media elites’ narrative about Islam and jihad
I wrote The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS as a challenge to the elites’ narrative about jihad and Islam. And it’s clearer every day now that the elites are brooking no challenges to their narrative, and are moving as fast as they can to muzzle the people who refute their lies and distortions. […]
Robert Spencer’s History of Jihad: “Heavily documented but eminently readable,” with a “magisterial sweep”
Geoffrey Luck, a journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for 26 years, has written the first Australian review of my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS in the Australian publication Quadrant. It’s a thoughtful, deeply considered review, and I thank him for it. Get the book here. “Muhammad’s Bloody Creed,” by Geoffrey […]
Video review of Robert Spencer’s History of Jihad: “Most thoroughly documented history of Muslim violence to date”
Here is an excellent video review by Dale Brown of my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can order here now.
Robert Spencer’s History of Jihad “substantiates what we are ultimately immersed in: a great spiritual crisis”
I’m grateful to Matthew Hanley for this fine review of my new book, The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which sums up my life’s work in calling attention to the jihad threat, and which you can order here now. “A Black Book on Jihad,” by Matthew Hanley, The Catholic Thing, October 29, 2018: […]
Nigerian Cardinal: “I ask my Muslim friends to say the discourses of Boko Haram are not the voice of true Islam!”
“This is the experience that we are facing in Nigeria: There exist the ‘fanatic’ Muslims — to use a bad word — just as there are also fanatic Christians.” Is that so? As of today, there have been 33,503 violent jihad terror attacks worldwide since 9/11. How many violent attacks have there been in that […]
“For too long Spencer has been alone in warning of jihad. His richly researched book deserves a wide audience.”
In case you missed it, here is Andrew Harrod’s review of my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can order here. “Robert Spencer Exposes Islam’s Phony Peace,” by Andrew E. Harrod, The Stream, August 7, 2018: “I have been made victorious with terror.” Muhammad, Islam’s prophet, reportedly said this […]