Middle East & Islam

 

Essays by Donald N. Anderson

Title   Published
1   Mohammad's recipe for conquest     06 Dec 2007

Slide presentation by Donald N. Anderson

     
1 Flash version of "Conquest By Mohammad" (23 min)
The interlocking features of Mohammad's teaching that have produced large and durable empires.
20 Jan 2016
           

(Books and DVDs on these topics compiled by Donald. N. Anderson since 9/11/2001)

The underlined authors are a subset of these books selected to provide a good background on Middle Eastern problems for those with limited reading time. Placing your cursor over the authors name will display the reason this book was chosen. For a brief synopsis of selected books, hold your mouse over the linked titles. To purchase the book from Amazon.com®, click on the linked titles.

 

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Books

Author Title

Published

1

Abou El Fadl, Khaled M.

The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists

2005

2

Baer, Robert

See No Evil

2002

3

Bell, J. Bowyer

Murders on the Nile: The World Trade Center and Global Terror

2003

5

Bergen, Peter L.

Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden

2001

6

Berntsen, Gary & Ralph Pezzullo Jawbreaker: The Attack on bin-Laden and al-Qaeda 2005

7

Bhatia, Shyam & Daniel McGrory

Brighter Than The Baghdad Sun

2000

8

Bostom, Andrew G. (Ed.)

The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims

2005

9

Brooks, Geraldine

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

1995

10

Caner, Ergun Mehmet & Emir Fethi Caner

Unveiling Islam

2002

11 Center for the Study of Political Islam

Mohammed and the Unbelievers: A Political Life

2006

12

Center for the Study of Political Islam

The Political Traditions of Mohammed: The Hadith for Unbelievers

2006

13

Darwish, Nonie

Now They Call Me Infidel

2006

14

Dolan, David

Israel in Crisis

2001

15

Fallaci, Oriana

The Force Of Reason

2004

16

Fallaci, Oriana

The Rage and the Pride

2004

17

Foss, Michael

People of the First Crusade

1997

18

Fregosi, Paul

Jihad in The West

1998

19

Gabriel, Brigitte

Because They Hate

2006

20

Gerges, Fawaz A.

Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy

2007

21

Glubb, John Bagot (Glubb Pasha)

The Life and Times of Muhammad

1998

22

Gold, Dore

Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism

2003

23

Hirsi Ali, Ayaan

The Caged Virgin

2004

24

Hirsi Ali, Ayaan

Infidel

2007

25

Horowitz, David

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left

2004

26

Katz, Samuel

Battleground: Fact & Fantasy in Palestine

1973

27

Ledeen, Michael A.

The War Against the Terror Masters

2002

28

Lewis, Bernard

What Went Wrong: Western Impact & M.E Response

1984

29

Lewis, Bernard

The Middle East: A Brief History of the last 2000 years

1995

30

Lewis, Bernard

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror

2003

31

Lewis, Bernard

Islam and the West

1993

32

Manji, Irshad

The Trouble with Islam

2003

33

Marshal, Paul

Their Blood Cries Out

1997

34

Patai, Raphael

The Arab Mind

1983

35

Peters, Joan

From Time Immemorial

1984

36

Peters, Ralph

Beyond Baghdad: Postmodern War and Peace

2003

37

Pryce-Jones, David

The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs

2002

38

Rizk, Salom

Syrian Yankee

1943

39

Spencer, Robert

Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith

2002

40

Spencer, Robert

Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West

2003

41

Spencer, Robert

The Truth About Mohammad

2006

42

Steyn, Mark

America Alone

2006

43

Timmerman, Kenneth R.

Preachers of Hate: Islam & the War on America

2003

44

Trifkovic, Serge

The Sword of the Prophet: History, Theology, Impact on the World

2002

45

Viorst, Milton

In the Shadow of the Prophet: The Struggle for the Soul of Islam

2001

46

Warraq, Ibn

Why I Am Not a Muslim

1995

47

Williams, Paul L. The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World 2007

48

Winn, Craig

Prophet of Doom: Islam's Terrorist Dogma in Muhammad's Own Words

(Also available for download, print, and mp3 HERE)

2004

49

Ye'or, Bat

Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis

2005

DVDs

Director Title

Published

1 Davis, Gregory M, & Bryan Daly Islam: What the West Needs to Know 2007
2 Gilbert, Joel Farewell Israel, Bush, Iran, and the Revolt of Islam 2007
3 Kopping, Wayne Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West 2007
 

I have selected only 8 books to summarize the problems we face with resurgent Jihadic Islam.  As excellent as these books are, I realize that they do not provide the balance and weight to give you a good appreciation of the complex and dangerous entity we refer to as the Middle East.  All of the other books on the list contributed something to my personal understanding of the problems.  I hope you will also have the time to delve further into this fascinating area.

  Revised 20 January20016