196 Boris Grdanoski and Konstantin Testorides, “ Macedonian Orthodox Church Set Alight,” CNS News, January 31, 2012, www.cnsnews.com/node/508092 .
197 “Welcome to the new Catalonia: A Moroccan attacks a Catholic church at Anglès,” Vlad Tepes , September 26, 2012, http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=53611 .
201 Of course, the frequency of such attacks is much less than attacks on churches, in proportion to the much smaller numbers of monasteries compared to churches in the Islamic world.
203 Mary Abdelmassih, “Egyptian Armed Forces Fire At Christian Monasteries, 19 Injured,” Assyrian International News Agency, February 24, 2011, http://www.aina.org/news/20110223210634.htm . Mary Abdelmassih, op. cit., 218.
212 Sidney H. Griffith, The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), 14.
213 Sir William Muir, The Life of Mahomet (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1878), 208, footnote 1.
214 Sahih al-Bukhari, The Book of the Stories of the Prophets . 4:60:3448.
215 Abu Ismael al-Azdi, translation by the author, Futuh al-Sham (Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1854), 103.
216 Adel Guindy, Hikayat al-Ihtilal , translation by the author, “Stories of the Occupation: Correcting Misunderstandings,” (Cairo: Middle East Freedom Forum, 2009), 88.
226 Mary Abdelmassih, “Coptic Christian Student Murdered By Classmates for Wearing a Cross,” Assyrian International News Agency, October 30, 2011, http://www.aina.org/news/20111030133621.htm .
1 Michael Bonner, Jihad in Islamic History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 11.
2 Felisa Neuringer Klubes, “Obituary: Majid Khadduri, Founder of SAIS Middle East Studies Program, Dies,” Johns Hopkins University Gazette , February 5, 2007, http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2007/05feb07/05obit.html . The quotations of Khadduri are from Majid Khadduri, War and Peace in the Law of Islam (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1955), 149-152.