The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS (64 page)

40
.
      
Ibn Ishaq,
The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah,
trans. A. Guillaume (Oxford University Press, 1955), 327; Daniel Greenfield, “ISIS Caliph of All Muslims Wears Stolen $6000 Watch,” FrontPage Magazine, July 6, 2014.

41
.
      
Ishaq,
The Life of Muhammad,
p. 503; Greenfield, “ISIS Caliph of All Muslims.”

42
.
      
Ishaq,
The Life of Muhammad,
p. 324; Greenfield, “ISIS Caliph of All Muslims.”

43
.
      
Ahmed Rashid,
Taliban
(Yale University Press, 2001), 42.

44
.
      
Craig Pyes, Josh Meyer and William C. Rempel, “Officials Reveal Bin Laden Plan,”
Los Angeles Times,
May 18, 2002.

45
.
      
“Algerian Terror Group Seeks Zarqawi’s Help,” UPI, May 2, 2006.

46
.
      
Brynjar Lia,
The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt
(Ithaca Press, 1998), 28.

47
.
      
“Hasan Al-Banna and His Political Thought of Islamic Brotherhood,” IkhwanWeb, The Muslim Brotherhood’s Official English website, May 13, 2008,
http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=17065
.

48
.
      
Lia,
The Society of the Muslim Brothers,
80.

49
.
      
Shaker El-sayed, “Hassan al-Banna: The Leader and the Movement,” Muslim American Society,
http://www.maschicago.org/library/misc_articles/hassan_banna.htm
.

50
.
      
Hasan Al-Banna, “Toward the Light,”
Five Tracts of Hasan Al-Banna,
trans. Charles Wendell (University of California Press, 1978), 126.

51
.
      
Caroline Fourest,
Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan,
trans. Ioana Wieder and John Atherton (Encounter Books, 2008), 20

52
.
      
Charles Wendell, “Introduction,”
Five Tracts of Hasan Al-Banna,
trans. Charles Wendell, (University of California Press, 1978), 3.

53
.
      
Ali Ibrahim Al-Moshki, “AQAP Announces Support for ISIL,”
Yemen Times,
August 19, 2014.

54
.
      
Rita Katz, “Interactive Map: The Islamic State’s Global Network of Pledged and Supporting Groups,” SITE Intel Group, February 17, 2015.

55
.
      
Katz, “Interactive Map”; Barnaby Lo, “Muslim Rebels in Philippines Vow Allegiance to IS,”
CCTV.com
, September 17, 2014; Alessandria Masi, “Where to Find ISIS Supporters: A Map of Militant Groups Aligned with the Islamic State Group,” International Business Times, October 9, 2014.

56
.
      
‘Jola Sotubo, “Boko Haram: Terrorist Group Changes Name to ‘Islamic State in West Africa,’” Pulse, April 23, 2015.

57
.
      
Lo, “Muslim Rebels in Philippines”; Masi, “Where to Find ISIS Supporters.”

Chapter Seven: The Caliphate’s Bloody History

1
.
        
Bukhari, vol. 5, book 64, no. 4428.

2
.
        
Bukhari, vol. 4, book 56, no. 2977.

3
.
        
Bukhari, vol. 5, book 64, no. 4431. The material in parentheses here was added by the Saudi translator of the hadith of Bukhari; the word Al-Mushrikun is generally translated as “unbelievers” or “polytheists”; literally, it refers to those who commit shirk, that is, the association of partners with Allah in worship.

4
.
        
Muslim, book 31, no. 5877.

5
.
        
Muslim, book 31, no. 5916.

6
.
        
Ibn Ishaq, p. 183. Bukhari, vol. 4, book 55, no. 2741.

7
.
        
Bukhari, vol. 4, book 55, no. 2741.

8
.
        
Tirmidhi, vol. 1, book 46, no. 3673,
Sunnah.com
,
http://sunnah.com/urn/635490
.

9
.
        
Fred Donner,
Muhammad and the Believers at the Origins of Islam
(The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010), 100–1.

10
.
      
Bukhari, vol. 9, book 88, no. 6922; cf. vol. 4, book 56, no. 3017.

11
.
      
H. U. Rahman,
Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE
(Ta-Ha Publishers, 1999), 55–57.

12
.
      
See, for example, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im,
Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a
(Harvard University Press, 2009), 60.

13
.
      
“Islam: A Complete Code of Life,”
Islamweb.net
,
http://www.islamweb.net/emainpage/articles/111867/islam-a-complete-code-of-life
.

14
.
      
Abubakr Asadulla,
Islam vs. West: Fact or Fiction?: A Brief Historical, Political, Theological, Philosophical, and Psychological Perspective
(iUniverse, 2009), 42.

15
.
      
Bukhari, vol. 5, book 62, no. 3668.

16
.
      
Rahman,
Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE,
59–60, 63–64.

17
.
      
John Gilchrist,
Jam’ Al-Qur’an, The Codification of the Qur’an Text: A Comprehensive Study of the Original Collection of the Qur’an Text and the Early Surviving Qur’an Manuscripts
(MERCSA, 1989),
http://www.answeringislam.org/Gilchrist/Jam/index.html
.

18
.
      
Bukhari, vol. 6, book 66, no. 4987.

19
.
      
The History of al-Tabari,
vol. 11,
The Challenge to the Empires,
trans. Khalid Yahya Blankinship (State University of New York Press, 1993), 147.

20
.
      
Rahman,
Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE,
65–68.

21
.
      
The History of al-Tabari,
vol. 12,
The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah and the Conquest of Syria and Palestine,
trans. Yohanan Friedmann (State University of New York Press, 1992), 167.

22
.
      
Bukhari, vol. 4, book 58, no. 3162.

23
.
      
John Esposito,
Islam: The Straight Path
(Oxford University Press, 1998), 34.

24
.
      
“Muslim Conquests in Egypt and Iran,” MacroHistory and World Timeline, n.d.,
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/islam08b.htm
.

25
.
      
“Professor Harald Suermann: The Idea That the Copts Received the Muslims as Liberators is No Longer Tenable,”
On Coptic Nationalism,
February 2, 2014,
https://copticliterature.wordpress.com/2014/02/02/professor-harald-suermann-the-idea-that-the-copts-received-the-muslims-as-liberators-is-no-longer-tenable/
.

26
.
      
Robert G. Hoyland,
Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings On Early Islam
(Darwin Press, 1997), 121.

27
.
      
Bat Ye’or,
The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude
(Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996), 274.

28
.
      
Ibid., 271–72.

29
.
      
Ibid., 275.

30
.
      
Daniel J. Sahas, “The Face to Face Encounter Between Patriarch Sophronius of Jerusalem and the Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab: Friends or Foes?,” in
The Encounter of Eastern Christianity With Early Islam,
Emmanouela Grypeou, Mark Swanson, and David Richard Thomas, eds. (Brill, 2006), 38.

31
.
      
Hoyland,
Seeing Islam As Others Saw It,
69.

32
.
      
Steven Runciman,
A History of the Crusades,
vol. 1 (Cambridge University Press, 1951), 4.

33
.
      
Hoyland,
Seeing Islam As Others Saw It,
72–73.

34
.
      
Runciman,
A History of the Crusades,
vol. 1, 3.

35
.
      
“Khalifa Umar bin al-Khattab–Death of Umar,”
Alim.org
,
http://www.alim.org/library/biography/khalifa/content/KUM/19/2
.

36
.
      
Agh., VII, 13 (quoted in Goldziher, 118).

37
.
      
Bukhari, vol. 5, book 62, no. 3699.

38
.
      
Bukhari, vol. 6, book 65, no. 4784.

39
.
      
Rahman,
Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE,
77–79.

40
.
      
Ibid., p. 83.

41
.
      
The History of al-Tabari,
vol. 16,
The Community Divided,
trans. Adrian Brockett, (State University of New York Press, 1997), 52–166, passim; Akbar Shah Najeebabadi,
The History of Islam,
vol. 1 (Darussalam, 2000), 455.

42
.
      
The History of al-Tabari,
vol. 17,
The First Civil War,
trans. G. R. Hawting (State University of New York Press, 1996), 1–110, passim; Najeebabadi,
The History of Islam,
vol. 1, 462–77.

43
.
      
Rahman,
Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE,
59.

44
.
      
The History of al-Tabari,
vol. 17,
The First Civil War,
trans. G. R. Hawting (State University of New York Press, 1996), 110–42,
passim.

45
.
      
Rahman,
Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE,
88–89.

46
.
      
Ibid., 90–91.

47
.
      
“Sunni Cleric Says Iraq Caliphate Violates Sharia,” Agence France-Presse, July 5, 2014.

48
.
      
Ibid.

49
.
      
Rahman,
Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE,
99–101.

50
.
      
Akbar Shah Najeebabadi,
The History of Islam,
vol. 2 (Darussalam, 2001), 79–80.

51
.
      
Ibid., 109–11, 140–46.

52
.
      
Rahman,
Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE,
131.

53
.
      
Theophanes the Confessor,
The Chronicle of Theophanes,
trans. Harry Turtledove, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), p. 93.

54
.
      
Ahmad Hasan Dani,
History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The Crossroads of Civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750
(Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1999), 459.

55
.
      
G. R. Hawting,
The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661–750
(Routledge, 2002), p. 92.

56
.
      
Rahman,
Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE,
137–38.

57
.
      
Ibid., 243.

58
.
      
Ibid., 255.

59
.
      
Ibid., 260.

60
.
      
Ibid., 272.

61
.
      
John Esposito, ed.,
The Oxford History of Islam
(Oxford University Press, 1999), 692.

62
.
      
The Oxford History of Islam,
692.

63
.
      
Rahman,
Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE,
153.

64
.
      
Philip K. Hitti,
The Arabs: A Short History
(Regnery, revised edition, 1970), 137.

65
.
      
María Rosa Menocal,
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
(Little, Brown, 2002), 281.

66
.
      
Harold Bloom, “Foreword,” in Menocal,
The Ornament of the World,
15.

67
.
      
Richard Fletcher,
Moorish Spain
(University of California Press, 1992), 172–73.

68
.
      
Norman A. Stillman,
The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book
(The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979), 56.