This book is an excellent, extremely well documented review of the Muslim jurists and authors who offer cogent arguments for why Muslims should wage war on nonMuslims. These authors are very important because they provide the Quranic rationale which is followed by militant Muslims (independent men, as well as organized groups like Muslim Brotherhood). The author makes the important point that Islamic terrorists are violent because of their religion, not because they are "disenfranchised" in some way. This answers the politically correct, but inaccurate viewpoint that Islam is innately peaceful and it is just an accident that terrorists are Muslim (this is why news reporters have trouble understanding it when certain terrorists are prosperous, educated and live in free countries). She emphasizes that it is the terrorists themselves, not biased observers, who claim religion is their motive, not poverty or corrupt political systems. The Muslim authors she quotes are very popular in the Muslim world, but unknown to westerners, and perhaps to modernist Muslims as well.
It would have been very helpful if she had a chapter on war in the Quran and Hadith (authoritative records of Muhammad's words and example). The problem is not primarily fundamentalists who "misread" the Quran. The core problem is that the Quran and Muhammad promote and practice violence against nonMuslims and Muslims who are not completely committed. So even if all fundamentalists and militant authors disappeared today, Muslims would still find dedication to violent war embedded in the Quran and sunna (example) of the prophet Muhammad and the problem of Muslim militancy would return. Quran and hadith are ultimate sources for all Muslims (hadith is essential because Muhammad is considered a holy, flawless prophet, so authentic parts of hadith are as authoritative to Muslims as the Gospels about Jesus are to Christians).
At least ten of the 114 chapters of Quran forcefully advocate offensive war: Surahs 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 22, 30, 33, 48, 54. The words “fight,” “kill,” “destroy” are common, as is offensive (not just defensive) war. The Quran also mentions at least 7 wars fought by Muslim armies. According to the Quran, prophet Muhammad recruited warriors, commanded armies, took war captives as slaves, had sex with slaves, took booty from his wars, defined "martyr" as Muslims who were killed while fighting wars, promised reward to warriors, claimed that Allah killed the men that Muslim warriors killed, and said that Muslims who did not become warriors in his army could not claim booty but would go to hell, The two sections on "peace" state that Muslims need not kill nonMuslims if they submit to Muhammad without fighting back. This seems to be the unknown fact, or secret, that academics and modernist Muslims want to hide from Muslims and nonMuslims alike. Habeck refers to some of these in passing, but doesn't provide the attention they deserve.
Kabeck's book is short, concise, well researched and includes a very large amount of information in a small space. She reveals sources generally unknown and difficult to find in the west and in languages other than Arabic. With the exception of the shortage of material on Quran and hadith, Kabeck's book is extremely important reading.
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