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 […]