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Editor and analyst Dr. Andrew Bostom, and translator Dr. Atef Ghobrial have provided the first complete, thoroughly annotated translation and analysis of the late (d. 2010) Al-Azhar University Grand Imam and major modern Qur'anic commentator Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi's Banu Isra'il fi al-Qur'an wa al-Sunna (""The Children of Israel in the Qur'an and Traditions""). This seminal, if ugly work, first published in 1968, and re-published and re-introduced proudly in 1997 by Tantawi himself, a year after he became Grand Imam-near Papal equivalent of Sunni Islam's de facto ""Vatican""-is the apotheosis of authoritative, modern Islamic antisemitism rooted in the Qur'an and Traditions of Islam's prophet Muhammad and the earliest Muslim community. Academic and journalistic apologists have argued Tantawi's views, by default, including his bilious Jew-hatred (and traditionalist views of aggressive jihad), somehow presented, an ""alternative"" to, ""what...is seen as a rigid and conformist version of Islam."" This pattern of Western apologetics, or frank denial, versus celebratory Muslim triumphalism regarding the unabashed Jew-hating rancor of Tantawi's thesis-coincident with his ancient-cum-modern embrace of jihad war doctrine-persists with great continued relevance today. As we demonstrate, the virulent antisemitism and jihadism permeating ""Banū Isrāʼīl fī al-Qurʼān wa-al-sunnah,"" has deep, living mainstream Muslim historical and doctrinal roots. Moreover, we maintain this venomous doctrine taught throughout the Muslim world with the authoritative imprimatur of major Islamic teaching institutions like Al-Azhar University contributes mightily to the present-day disproportionate pandemic of extreme Muslim antisemitism documented repeatedly by independent surveys conducted for more than two decades, ongoing. Tantawi's written exegetic support for aggressive jihad, including jihad terror ""martyrdom,"" was complemented by public pronouncements sanctioning homicide bombing, particularly against Israel's Jews, shortly after becoming Grand Imam, March 17, 1996, and reiterated consistently during his tenure. Sanctioning homicide bombings against Israeli Jewish non-combatants was certainly the worst example of Tantawi's visceral, religiously inspired Islamic Jew-hatred while Grand Imam, but another less directly lethal manifestation 

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""In A Modern Qur'anic Kampf Against the Jews, Andrew Bostom exposes the full breadth of Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi's record-the late Grand Imam of AI-Azhar University, whose writings dripped with hostility toward Jews. Bostom has done more than most to drag this material into the light. Readers should be grateful for the sheer rigor of his work. Read this book with care; it documents a tradition of antisemitism too long ignored."" -Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now In a time when ""progressive"" antisemitism, conservative antisemitism, and Islamic antisemitism are all rising dramatically, and there are heated debates about the connection between ideology and terrorism, A Modern Qur'anic Kampf Against The Jews becomes especially relevant. Late AI-Azhar University Grand Imam Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi was considered by many as a 'moderate' leader of Islam. This book demonstrates how easily he turned the Qur'an into a powerful weapon against Jews and against Israel. And it should concern everyone - Jews, Christians, and even more, Muslims."" -Natan Sharansky, author of Fear No Evil ""In A Modern Qu'ranic Kampf Against the Jews, Dr. Andrew Bostom, with translator Dr. Atef Ghobrial, present a massive work by late AI-Azhar Grand Imam Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, from the center of Islamic learning, demonstrating that far from offering a practically liberal ""alternative"" to the harshest aspects of Islam-the apologist's line-Tantawi reiterated the Qu'ranically correct hatred of Jews, currently poisoning world affairs."" -Diana West, author of American Betrayal ""Dr. Andrew Bostom has rendered us an invaluable service by arranging for the translation of Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi's Ph.D. thesis and introducing it in a manner which helps us to judge directly, unmediated by sycophants, cowards, and sundry apologists, the vile antisemitism of this influential figure lodged firmly in the inner citadel of Cairo's AI-Azhar University.T here can no longer be any excuse for not seeing what mainstream Islamic scholarship really thinks."" -lbn Warraq, author of The Islam in Islamic Terrorism ""Like the men of lssachar, Andrew Bostom understands the times. Bostom provides essential&nbs

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