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Robert Spencer

About The Author

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is the author of twenty-seven books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion, as well as the bestselling The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS and The Critical Qur’an: Explained from Key Islamic Commentaries and Contemporary Historical Research. His most recent book is The Sumter Gambit: How the Left Is Trying to Foment a Civil War. Spencer has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the FBI, the United States Central Command, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the Justice Department’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council, and the U.S. intelligence community. 

Books by Robert Spencer