{"title":"Robert Spencer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Spencer\u003c\/strong\u003e offers incisive explorations into religion and faith, focusing particularly on Islam and its intersection with contemporary society. His works delve into complex themes with a critical eye, challenging readers to consider different perspectives on faith, culture, and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlending elements of \u003cem\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e with analytical insight, these books invite reflection on religious dynamics and controversies. Readers can expect thought-provoking narratives that engage with sensitive topics with a distinctive and direct approach.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"muhammad-by-robert-spencer-9798888453087","title":"Muhammad","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuhammad: What can we really know about him?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe know a great deal about Muhammad—or so it seems. Islamic tradition contains an astonishing wealth of information about the founding figure of the Islamic faith, and most historians take for granted that this material is generally reliable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his latest book, historian and Islamic scholar Robert Spencer shows that there is no agreement in the earliest Islamic sources about the most fundamental details of this towering figure’s life. There are conflicting accounts of key details of his life, including the circumstances and contents of the first revelation he claimed to have received from Allah; the year of his birth; the length of his prophetic career; the name of the angel who supposedly appeared to him; and even his own name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuhammad: A Critical Biography\u003c\/em\u003e takes a detailed look at the Islamic traditions regarding Muhammad and lays bare their contradictions, inconsistencies, and incoherence. Spencer continues the groundbreaking research he began in \u003cem\u003eThe Truth About Muhammad and Did Muhammad Exist?\u003c\/em\u003e, exposing the shocking reality of how shaky Islam’s foundations really are. He meticulously explains why competing traditions may have been invented and definitively demonstrates that, contrary to the complacency of establishment historians, the Muhammad of Islam is more legend than history, more fable than fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuhammad: A Critical Biography\u003c\/em\u003e does the work that mainstream academics—who are either bought by Saudi Arabia or Qatar, or too afraid to depart from the herd—should have done long ago. Not for the faint-hearted, this book will do nothing less than rock the Islamic world to its very core.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46844701016300,"sku":"9798888453087","price":69.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6684603488913.jpg?v=1758851946"},{"product_id":"the-tragedy-of-islam-by-robert-spencer-9798888459225","title":"The Tragedy of Islam","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIslam fails both individuals and societies, yet non-Muslims keep making excuses for it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a set of ideas for the ordering of the lives of individuals and societies, Islam has proven to be a singular failure. Aside from the accident of geology that has provided them with oil wealth, Islamic states are generally economic basket cases and serial violators of human rights. All too many converts to Islam end up turning to terrorism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet in the face of these truths, which historian and Islam expert Robert Spencer definitively establishes here, it has become a cultural habit in the non-Muslim West to retreat into fantasies and tout glories of Islam that are more imagined than real. These widely disseminated falsehoods have created the cultural context for the fad of conversions to Islam that swept TikTok in the wake of the Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, and widely believed falsehoods regarding an Islamic Golden Age and Muslim inventions of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOften, these fantasies are handsomely subsidised, even government-sponsored endeavours. The Western governments that pour money into these endeavours hoping that they will lead to an eradication of \"Islamophobia\" are ignoring the real problem: Islam’s failure breeds fanaticism and intolerance, as Spencer explains in detail. 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We would have had in place an institutional effort to counter it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Here is another opportunity to pay attention to his important work. Read this book!” –Ayaan Hirsi Ali\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hamas attack upon Israel on October 7, 2023, was one of the most inhuman jihad attacks ever. The attackers gloried in their savagery and vied to outdo one another in cruelty. Yet despite—or perhaps because of—its brutality, that attack unleashed expressions of hatred for Jews that shocked those who assumed such hate was a thing of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGlobal public opinion turned sharply against Israel. One campus protester carried a sign calling for a “Final Solution.” Another published a video saying, “Be glad—be grateful—that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.” Synagogues all over the US received bomb threats. Jews in Europe and the US were attacked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOctober 7 also led to a large-scale reappearance of claims about the Jews’ secret power and malevolence. Claims that Jews are enemies of all that is good have become mainstream as they have not been since Hitler put a bullet in his brain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe record needs to be set straight for anyone who is willing to see the truth. Historian Robert Spencer does just that. He reveals the sources of today’s Jew-hatred in pre-Christian paganism, Christianity, Islam, and national and international socialism, and rebuts the most common claims against Jews.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe resurgence of antisemitism should worry everyone, Jewish and non-Jewish, who is concerned about the recurrence of one of the darkest chapters in human history. 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