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Introduction
This list is unavoidably incomplete.
If you notice an important work missing from this list, it’s not meant as a slight to the book or the author. Just send along a note to the blog admin and we’ll update the list.
Learning about political Islam is an intellectual effort. Your work in this field will be as complex and indepth as you wish. You must have a foundation from which to work in order to understand the nature of Islam and the threat that it poses to our freedoms, form of government, and religious pluralism.
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Recommended Reading List
Fundamentals – Introductory
Brigitte Gabriel
Because They Hate
They Must Be Stopped
Nonie Darwish
Now They Call Me Infidel
Gregory Davis
Religion of Peace?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Infidel
The Caged Virgin
(FGM and cultural study of Islam)
Serge Trifkovic
The Sword of the Prophet
Robert Spencer
Onward Muslim Soldiers! The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades
Religion of Peace: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t
Ibn Warriq
Why I am Not a Muslim
Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out
Doctrine of Islam & Mohammed- Core Studies
Bill Warner
An Abridged Koran
Mohammed and the Unbelievers (Sira, Mohammed’s biography)
The Political Traditions of Mohammed (Hadith)
The Submission of Women and Slaves
Thirteen Lessons on Political Islam
(see PoliticalIslam.com)
Robert Spencer
The Truth about Mohammed
Zaki Ameen
Living by the Point of My Spear
(short biography of Mohammed, advanced)
History of Islam and Jihad (Ancient to Modern Era)
Bat Ye’Or
The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam:
From Jihad to Dhimmitude: Seventh-20th Century
Andrew Bostom
The Legacy of Jihad
The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism
Koenraad Elst
Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam
M. A. Khan
Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism and Slavery
David Price Jones
Closed Circle
(Modern day Arab state and tribal politics)
Francis Bok
Escape From Slavery
(Current history of an escapee from Islamic slavery in Africa)
Raphael Patai
The Arab Mind
(Sociology, and history of Arab culture)
V. S. Naipaul
Among the Believers
(travels in modern day Islam)
Civilizational Conflict – Jihad against the West – Islamization
Bat Ye’Or
Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis
Aaron Klein
Schmoozing with Terrorists
Mark Steyn
America Alone
Melanie Phillips
Londonistan
Robert Spencer
Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America Without Guns or Bombs
Paul Sperry
Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Penetrated Washington
Walid Phares
The War of Ideas: Jihadism Against Democracy
Bruce Bawer
While Europe Slept
Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom
Stephen Emerson
American Jihad
Jihad Incorporated: A Guide to Militant Islam in the US
Tony Blakely
The West’s Last Chance
Rachel Ehrenfeld
Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It
Islamic Law – Sharia
Noni Darwish
Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law
Bat Ye’or
The Dhimmi
Islam and Dhimmitude – Where Civilizations Collide
Robert Spencer
The Myth of Islamic Tolerance
Fighting Against Jihad – Opposing Islamic Totalitarianism
Serge Trifkovic
Defeating Islam: How the War on Terror May Yet Be Won
Walid Shoebat
Why I Left Jihad
Why We Want To Kill You
God’s War on Terror: Islam , Prophecy, and the Bible
Walid Phares
The Confrontation: Winning the War Against Future Jihad
Future Jihad
Kamal Saleem
The Blood of Lambs:
A Former Terrorist’s Memoir of Death and Redemption
M. Muthuswamy
Defeating Islam: The New Cold War
(with Steven Emerson)
The Art of War on Terror
David Frum
An End to Evil