The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS

By: Robert Spencer

Narrated by: Robert Spencer

The comprehensive history of the role of war and terror in the spread of Islam.

It is taken for granted, even among many Washington policymakers, that Islam is a fundamentally peaceful religion and that Islamic jihad terrorism is something relatively new, a product of the economic and political ferment of the 20th century. But in The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS, Islamic scholar Robert Spencer proves definitively that Islamic terror is as old as Islam itself, as old as Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, who said “I have been made victorious through terror.”

Spencer briskly traces the 1,400-year war of Islamic jihadis against the rest of the world, detailing the jihad against Europe, including the 700-year struggle to conquer Constantinople; the jihad in Spain, where non-Muslims fought for another 700 years to get the jihadi invaders out of the country; and the jihad against India, where Muslim warriors and conquerors wrought unparalleled and unfathomable devastation in the name of their religion.

Told in great part in the words of contemporary chroniclers themselves, both Muslim and non-Muslim, The History of Jihad shows that jihad warfare has been a constant of Islam from its very beginnings, and present-day jihad terrorism proceeds along exactly the same ideological and theological foundations as did the great Islamic warrior states and jihad commanders of the past.

The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS is the first one-volume history of jihad in the English language, and the first book to tell the whole truth about Islam’s bloody history in an age when Islamic jihadis are more assertive in Western countries than they have been for centuries. This book is indispensable to understanding the geopolitical situation of the twenty-first century, and ultimately to formulating strategies to reform Islam and defeat radical terror.

©2018 Robert Spencer (P)2018 Post Hill Press

The facts and due diligence. Everyone should read his chronicles.

This book should have been published earlier since it is the truthful chronicles of Jihad.

Masterful!

This book should be compulsive reading in Secondary schools throughout the West, particularly as RE (or RI) is no longer included in the Curriculum.

Excellent

Very good history all should know and read to understand what’s happening now a days around the world

Historically concise from 7th-21st century AD !

I would like to preface my review by directing the beginning to the wonderful team at Audible, I personally prefer when the author of a book is also narrated by its author, from my digging Robert Spencer at this point has written 29 books, & Audible has 18 books by author Robert Spencer, but he has only narrated 1 of his books here on Audible, that he has written, this is disproportionately low, I don't know why this is the case (I don't know the behind the scenes at Audible)?
Robert Spencer in this nonfiction historical analysis shows the giant juxtaposition of what a person who teaches a thing they know of on a simple surface level, versus when a person is very well educated on the subject they are teaching & speaking on, in an extremely in-depth & straight from the source material closest to the events that are being spoken of, giving very accurate, unbias & factual to the said source materials from the 7th century Arabian Peninsula, to the advent of the printing press of the 15th century, to the later advent of the still photograph capabilities of the 19th century. Finally to modern day crystal clear video capturing capabilities & on demand live streams in the 21st century. When every category spanning 1,400 years long screams the answer to that inquiry, It would behoove us to listen to the unequivocal answer that history has provided us, based on the innumerable amount of lives lost, humanity not learning from history. Is either a willing blindness to the obvious facts of history, or a deep-seated weakness that we have also learned from the totality of history, the weak do not persevere against an ideology & philosophy that meditates & finds its teleology in the blood or submission of their goal of global theocratic supremacism, & massive moral depravity that has been cloaked as religious piety.

Complete Historical Account

Robert Spencer offers the most complete historical account of Muslim jihad and quotes Islam's support for jihad within their holy books. A must read for all people.