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The Legacy of Jihad is a book by Andrew Bostom , a medical doctor who has written several other works discussing Islamic intolerance.1The foreword was written by self-proclaimed ex-Muslim author and polemicist, " Ibn Warraq ". The book provides a textual analysis of the concept and practice of jihad by examining Islamic theological and legal texts, eyewitness historical accounts of Muslim and non-Muslim chroniclers, and essays by scholars analyzing jihad - "war against unbelievers in the path of Allah " - and the conditions imposed upon the non-Muslim peoples conquered by jihad campaigns.2The book is framed as a rejection of the "politically correct" notion that Islam is a peaceful religion and strives to prove that Islam is in fact violent and intolerant.3Some readers have said that Bostom's choice of source material is overly selective and one-sided. From the book's foreword: "Dr. Bostom is the first scholar to have had translated from the Arabic the works of commentators on Sura IX.29 like al-Badawi , al-Suyuti , al-Zamakhshari , and al-Tabari . Other primary sources translated for the first time into English include documents on Jihad such as the one written by al-Ghazali .... Similarly, Dr Bostom is the first scholar to have overseen the translations of important, and in some cases, neglected or forgotten secondary sources from French works on Jihad by Edmond Fagnan, Roger Arnaldez, Charles-Emmanuel Dufourcq , Clement Huart, Dimitar Angelov, and Maria Mathilde Alexandrescu-Dersca Bulgaru. The Jerusalem Post calls The Legacy of Jihad "a breakthrough inasmuch as the enormous task of assembling together all the major sources which govern the holy war in Islam had never been attempted before," Matt Carr writing in Race & Class , described Bostom as a "protégé" of Bat Ye’or , and described Bostom's perspective of Islam as reducing to the acronym "‘MPED’ – massacre, pillage, enslavement and deportation".4
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Bostom The Legacy of Jihad is a book by Andrew Bostom . The foreword was written by self-proclaimed ex-Muslim author and polemicist, " Ibn Warraq ". The book provides a textual analysis of the concept and practice of jihad by examining Islamic theological and legal texts, eyewitness historical accounts of Muslim and non-Muslim chroniclers, and essays by scholars analyzing jihad - "war against unbelievers in the path of Allah " - and the conditions imposed upon the non-Muslim peoples conquered by jihad campaigns. From the book's foreword: "Dr. Bostom is the first scholar to have had translated from the Arabic the works of commentators on Sura IX.29 like al-Baydawi , al-Suyuti , al-Zamakhshari , and al-Tabari . Other primary sources translated for the first time into English include documents on Jihad such as the one written by al-Ghazali .... Similarly, Dr Bostom is the first scholar to have overseen the translations of important, and in some cases, neglected or forgotten secondary sources from French works on Jihad by Edmond Fagnan, Roger Arnaldez, Charles Emmanuel Dufourcq, Clement Huart, Dimitar Angelov, and Maria Mathilde Alexandrescu-Dersca Bulgaru.
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The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims is a book by Andrew Bostom , a medical doctor who has written several other works discussing Islamic intolerance.The foreword was written by author and ex-Muslim , Ibn Warraq .The book is framed as a rejection of the notion that Islam is a peaceful religion and sets out to prove that Islam is violent and intolerant.
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2005 book by Andrew G. Bostom The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims is a book by Andrew G. Bostom , a medical doctor who has written several other works discussing Islamic intolerance. The foreword was written by author and ex-Muslim , Ibn Warraq . The book is framed as a rejection of the notion that Islam is a peaceful religion and claims that Islam is violent and intolerant.
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