Titles by Dr. A. S. Ibrahim
The Enemy Within: Political Islam in American Public Life
Think and Tell, 2026
Collected from Ibrahim’s essays and paired with new retrospective commentary, The Enemy Within is the first volume in Islam and the West, a three-volume series examining the rise and reach of political Islam in the modern world. This volume turns to the United States, analyzing how Islamist movements engage with American institutions, politics, and public life. Ibrahim distinguishes how Islamic ideology operates within an open society—through advocacy organizations, activism, immigration, and the contest over public institutions.
The Surrendered Continent: Political Islam and the Future of Europe
think and tell, 2026
The Surrendered Continent is the second volume in Islam and the West. This volume turns to Europe, analyzing how Islamist movements engage with European societies, institutions, and public life, and how governments have responded. Ibrahim distinguishes how Islamic ideology advances across the continent—through immigration and integration debates, the politics of national identity, and the contest over law, speech, and public space. Collected from Ibrahim’s essays and paired with new retrospective commentary, the volume offers its readers a documented and accessible account of one of the defining questions facing Europe today.
Fire and Faith: Political Islam, the Middle East and American Power
think and tell, 2026
Fire and Faith is the third volume in Islam and the West. This volume turns to the Middle East, analyzing the region’s own struggles over faith, power, and governance—and the choices they present for American foreign policy. Ibrahim discusses how political Islam as an ideology shapes conflict and statecraft across the Middle East—through the contest between rival visions of Islamic governance, the fate of religious minorities, and the upheavals reshaping Iran, Syria, and the wider region.
Sharia Versus the U.S. Constitution: Why Americans Must Choose Freedom
Think and tell, 2026
Can a nation founded on the consent of the governed accommodate a legal system that claims divine authority over every area of life? In Sharia Versus the U.S. Constitution, Dr. A. S. Ibrahim offers a clear and rigorous answer. Ibrahim moves through the American constitutional order amendment by amendment, showing where its guarantees collide with the requirements of Islamic law. The Establishment Clause was written to prevent the fusion of religious and civil authority that sharia demands. The free exercise of religion cannot coexist with laws prescribing death for apostasy.
A Medieval Case for Islam’s Superiority: The Letter of Ibn al-Layth to the King of the Romans
baylor university press, 2025
In the last decade of the eighth century, the longtime caliphal secretary, Ibn al-Layth (d. ca. 819), composed a letter on behalf of the caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (r. 786-809) to the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI (r. 780-797). This letter is now widely considered to be the oldest surviving apologetic defense of Islam and polemic against Christianity. A Medieval Case for Islam’s Superiority makes Ibn al-Layth’s letter accessible to a broader audience for the first time. Ayman S. Ibrahim and Clint Hackenburg provide an improved critical edition of the Arabic text that consults all six known manuscripts, its first complete English translation, and a comprehensive introduction to Ibn al-Layth’s life and work.
Muhammad’s Military Expeditions: A Critical Reading in Original Muslim Sources
Oxford University press, 2024
The last ten years of Muhammad’s life are vitally important to the development of Islam. Prior to that last decade, Muhammad and his followers were tribally weak, and were persecuted by the Arabian elites of Mecca. Yet, according to Muslim accounts, by the end of his life Muhammad had become the sole leader of Western Arabia. This last decade was colored by strategic military expeditions and tactical treaties, in which Muhammad overcame all his tribal enemies. Yet English speakers have long had limited access to thorough studies of these expeditions based on the original Arabic primary sources. In this book, Ayman S. Ibrahim seeks to fill this scholarly gap, presenting an exhaustive account of Muhammad’s final decade, with specific emphasis on his military raids against various non-Muslim groups.
Islam and the Bible: Questioning Muslim Idiom Translations
b&H, 2023
As early as the seventh century, Christians living and ministering in Muslim contexts adapted their language and public witness to Islamic cultural and religious sensitivities. In Islam and the Bible, editors Ayman S. Ibrahim and Ant B. Greenham invite leading voices, representing a spectrum of approaches, to explore the issues surrounding “Muslim Idiom Translations” of the Bible. This work will be insightful for students, theologians, missiologists, missionaries, and Bible translators seeking wisdom and clarity on gospel contextualization.
A Concise Guide to Islam: Defining Key Concepts and Terms
Baker Academic, 2023
For many in the English-speaking world, Islam remains a mysterious religion. In this compact volume, Ibrahim provides explanations for more than one hundred important Islamic concepts and terms, which are divided into major sections: texts, history, faith and belief, practice and religious duties, jurisprudence, and movements. Each term is described based on original Muslim sources, mainly written in Arabic, as well as ample scholarly studies. This introductory guide is written for anyone with little to no knowledge of Islam, and complements the author’s A Concise Guide to the Quran and A Concise Guide to the Life of Muhammad.
Reaching Your Muslim Neighbor with the Gospel
crossway, 2022
Muslims are coming to Christ more than ever before—which is why Christians must have a robust, Christ-centered foundation for evangelism. However, many Christians know very little about Muslims and their beliefs, which often results in misconceptions and a decreased ability to clearly and effectively proclaim the gospel. In Reaching Your Muslim Neighbor with the Gospel, Ibrahim seeks to provide readers with insight and practical tips to engage and share the gospel with Muslim friends and neighbors.
Medieval Encounters: Arabic-speaking Christians and Islam
gorgias, 2022
How did early Arabic-speaking Christians respond to the Islamic claims against the Bible, the Trinity, and the incarnation? How did these Christians view Islam, Muḥammad, and the Qur’ān? Can today’s Church, particularly in the West, benefit in any way from the earliest arguments developed by these medieval Arabic-speaking Christians? These questions, and many more, are at the heart of this important volume, which examines nine key medieval Arabic-speaking Christian figures, and discusses their responses to Islamic criticisms. This book makes some of the most important voices of medieval Arabic-speaking Christianity, and their contributions to the Christian-Muslim theological encounter, more easily and widely accessible in the English-speaking university context.
A Concise Guide to the Life of Muhammad: Answering Thirty Key Questions
baker academic, 2022
Ibrahim answers thirty important questions about Muhammad, offering a clear and concise guide to his life and religious significance. This companion volume to the author’s A Concise Guide to the Quran, and A Concise Guide to Islam answers many of the key questions non-Muslims have about Muhammad, reveals the importance of Muhammad for Christian-Muslim and Jewish-Muslim interfaith relations, and examines Muslim and non-Muslim primary sources. This introductory guide is written for anyone with little to no knowledge of Islam who wants to learn about Muslims, their beliefs, and their prophet.
In Search of the True Religion: Monk Jurji and Muslim Jurists Debating Faith and Practice
gorgias, 2022
In 1216, a group of monks visited Aleppo to discuss matters concerning their monastery with the governor. During this visit, a venerable member of the monastic community named Jurjī began discussing monastic life with the emir, the governor’s younger brother. This resulted in a religious debate between Jurjī and several Islamic jurists. This religious dispute survived in dozens of manuscripts and is a wonderful example of a Christian-Arabic genre that describes medieval Christian-Muslim encounters in the caliphal court. To create the most accurate representation of Jurjī’s work, this present study scrutinized over a dozen manuscripts, including the oldest extant ones. With this edition and translation, Ayman S. Ibrahim and Clint Hackenburg bring scholarly attention to this fascinating genre and debate.
Conversion to Islam: Competing Themes in Early Islamic Historiography
oxford university press, 2021
Relying on numerous works, including primary sources, from over a hundred classical Muslim historians, Conversion to Islam is the first scholarly study to detect, trace, and analyze conversion themes in early Muslim historiography, emphasizing how classical Muslims remembered conversion. Ibrahim examines numerous early Muslim sources and wrestles with critical observations regarding the sources’ reliability. He unearths the hidden link between historical narratives and historians’ religious sympathies and political agendas. This study examines a complex body of literature and creates a vivid picture of conversion to Islam as early Muslim historians sought to depict it.
Basics of Arabic: A Complete Grammar, Workbook, and Lexicon
zondervan, 2021
An ideal introduction to Arabic for beginning students and independent learners, Basics of Arabic is an introductory grammar, workbook, and lexicon for learning Modern Standard Arabic. Designed for students approaching Arabic for the first time, the book provides them with all the tools necessary to develop skills in reading and writing Arabic. Students will learn Arabic grammar, vocabulary, and how to translate key Arabic passages from biblical and qur’anic texts.
Modern Standard Arabic Workbook: Questions, Answers, and Practice
2025
Designed to complement Basics of Arabic, this standalone resource helps beginners and advanced learners alike build a strong foundation in al-fuṣḥā—the Arabic used across 22+ countries in media and official settings. With 20 expertly crafted lessons, including in-depth verb exercises, this workbook offers engaging puzzles, real-world vocabulary from the Bible and Quran, and famous Arabic texts to make learning meaningful.
A Concise Guide to the Quran: Answering Thirty Critical Questions
baker academic, 2020
What is so unique about Islam’s scripture, the Quran? Who wrote it, and when? Can we trust its statements to be from Muhammad? Why was it written in Arabic? Does it command Muslims to fight Christians? These are a few of the thirty questions answered in this clear and concise guide to the history and contents of the Quran. Ibrahim examines Muslim and non-Muslim views concerning the Quran, shows how the Quran is used in contemporary expressions of Islam, answers many of the key questions non-Muslims have about the Quran and Islam, and reveals the importance of understanding the Quran for Christian-Muslim and Jewish-Muslim interfaith relations.
The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion: A Critical Revision of Muslims’ Traditional Portrayal of the Arab Raids and Conquests
peter lang, 2018
The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion (622–641) extensively analyzes the earliest Arabic Muslim sources, relying on over 400 works, including primary sources written by more than 90 medieval Muslim authors. It explores how medieval Muslim writers represented the early Arab leaders, and how much we can trust their reports. This is the first scholarly analysis to focus on the stated motivations for the early Islamic expansion in the first two decades of Islam and is a valuable resource within Islamic scholarship. In the age of ISIS, Qaeda, and Boko Haram, this book reflects on how historiographical accounts can inform today’s multi-cultural and multi-religious societies on complex relations, mutual respect, and religious coexistence.
Muslim Conversions to Christ: A Critique of Insider Movements in Islamic Contexts
peter lang, 2018
Muslim Conversions to Christ focuses on the so-called Insider Movement (as promoted by certain missiologists). Drawing on international scholars and practitioners in the fields of the history and nature of Islam, the Qur’an, Christian-Muslim relations, biblical theology, and practical missiology, this book presents a solid academic rejoinder to the IM phenomenon. Moreover, it brings into the conversation the voices of believers from Muslim backgrounds (BMBs), Middle Eastern scholars, and missiologists living among Muslims in the Middle East and elsewhere. Readers will understand that Muhammad is not a prophet based on the Bible and that the Qur’an is not a scriptural guide for Muslims after their conversion. Rather than acquiesce in IM marketing ploys, such readers will be encouraged to stand in solidarity with BMBs who suffer for their faith.