American critic of Islam (1973-)
Raymond Ibrahim
(born 1973) is an American author, translator, columnist,
critic of Islam
, and a former librarian. His focus is
Arabic history
and
language
, and current events.
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Early life and education
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Ibrahim was born in the United States to
Coptic
immigrants from
Egypt
.
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He is fluent in Arabic and English. Ibrahim studied at
California State University, Fresno
, where he wrote a master's thesis under
Victor Davis Hanson
on an early military encounter between
Islam and Byzantium
based on medieval Arabic and Greek texts. Ibrahim also took graduate courses at
Georgetown University
's
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
and studied toward a PhD in medieval Islamic history at
Catholic University
.
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Career
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Ibrahim was previously an
Arabic language
specialist for the Near East section of the
Library of Congress
,
[6]
and the associate director of the
Middle East Forum
. As of 2023
[update]
, he is the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the
Gatestone Institute
and the Judith Friedman Rosen Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, an American conservative think tank.
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He has been described as a part of the
counter-jihad
movement.
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Ibrahim is the editor and translator of
The Al Qaeda Reader
, which he published after discovering a hitherto unknown Arabic
al-Qaeda
document; Ibrahim believes the document "proves once and for all that, despite the propaganda of al-Qaeda and its sympathizers, radical Islam's war with the West is not finite and limited to political grievances ? real or imagined ? but is existential, transcending time and space and deeply rooted in faith".
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Ibrahim has appeared on and been interviewed by
Al Jazeera
,
MSNBC
,
C-SPAN
,
NPR
, and
Reuters
, and "regularly lectures, briefs governmental agencies, provides expert testimony for Islam-related lawsuits, and testifies before Congress."
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Reception
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An article Ibrahim wrote on
taqiyya
, which was commissioned and published by
Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst
on September 26, 2008,
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was later characterized by another author in
Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst
as being "well-researched, factual in places but ... ultimately misleading".
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Ibrahim responded to this charge in his rebuttal, "Taqiyya Revisited: A Response to the Critics.
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Publications
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- Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam
. Post Hill Press. 2022.
ISBN
978-1642938203
.
- Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
. Da Capo Press. 2018.
ISBN
978-0306825552
.
- Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians
. Regnery. 2013.
ISBN
978-1621570257
.
- The Al Qaeda Reader
. Doubleday. 2007.
ISBN
978-0-385-51655-6
.
References
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"Terrorist letter's validity doubted"
.
The Washington Times
. October 18, 2005.
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Min, Brian (July 1, 2019).
"U.S. Army War College disinvites speaker critical of Islam"
.
The College Fix
. Retrieved
August 15,
2020
.
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Bale, Jeffrey M. (2013).
"Denying the Link between Islamist Ideology and Jihadist Terrorism: "Political Correctness" and the Undermining of Counterterrorism"
.
Perspectives on Terrorism
.
7
(5): 5?46.
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a
b
"In Their Own Words; Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri explain their bloody actions."
Archived
2012-11-03 at the
Wayback Machine
,
The Washington Post
, October 7, 2007
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"Raymond Ibrahim"
.
Hoover Institution
. Retrieved
April 21,
2017
.
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"Bin Laden writings to be translated"
,
USA Today
,
Associated Press
, January 20, 2005
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a
b
"Fellows"
.
Middle East Forum
.
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Pertwee, Ed (October 2017).
'Green Crescent, Crimson Cross': The Transatlantic 'Counterjihad' and the New Political Theology
(PDF)
. London School of Economics. p. 268.
- ^
Ibrahim, Raymond (26 February 2009).
"Taqiyya Revisited: A Response to the Critics"
.
- ^
"Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst - Special Reports"
. Archived from
the original
on 2009-03-03
. Retrieved
2009-08-19
.
- ^
"Interpreting Taqiyya: Special Report"
,
Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst
.
IHS
Jane's Information Group
. November 12, 2008.
- ^
"Taqiyya Revisited: A Response to the Critics"
.
Raymond Ibrahim
. 26 February 2009.
External links
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