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Raymond Ibrahim is an American research librarian who has been called a "scholar of Arabic history and language".[1]
Biography
Ibrahim was born in 1973 in the United States to Egyptian Coptic immigrants. 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 of Contemporary Arab Studies and is studying toward the PhD in medieval Islamic history at Catholic University.
Career
Ibrahim was previously an Arab language specialist for the Near East section of the Library of Congress.[2] He is associate director of the Middle East Forum.
Ibrahim is the editor and translator of The Al-Qaeda Reader.[3]
References
- ^ "Terrorist letter's validity doubted", The Washington Times, October 18, 2005
- ^ "Bin Laden writings to be translated", USA Today, Associated Press, January 20, 2005
- ^ "In Their Own Words; Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri explain their bloody actions.", The Washington Post, October 7, 2007
Publications
- The Al Qaeda Reader (editor and translator), Doubleday, 2007, ISBN 978-0-385-51655-6
- "How Taqiyya Alters Islam's Rules of War", Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2010, pp. 3–13
- "Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?", Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2009, pp. 3–12
- "An Analysis of Al-Qa'ida's Worldview: Reciprocal Treatment or Religious Obligation", Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 3, September 2008
- "Studying the Islamic Way of War", National Review Online, September 11, 2008
- "Islam's Doctrines of Deception", Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst, September 26, 2008
- "Jesus and Mohammad, Version 2.0", National Review Online, September 10, 2007
- "The Two Faces of Al Qaeda", The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 54, Issue 4, p. B3, September 21, 2007
- "Islam gets concessions; Infidels get conquered", Los Angeles Times, December 5, 2006
External links
Raymond Ibrahim biography, Pundicity.com
