An Evaporating Edifice by Bruce Bawer

07/27/2021

Robert Spencer is quick to underscore that this book is the product of decades of discoveries by many different individuals. But by bringing this material together so cogently and coherently and putting it into the hands of an audience of general readers, Spencer has made an invaluable contribution to knowledge. This is, to be sure, only the latest addition to the long bookshelf of volumes about Islam that he's produced over the last two decades, thereby providing an urgently needed corrective to the deceptions and distortions of glib fabulists like Karen Armstrong and Tariq Ramadan.

And what a book it is! So you don't care about Islam? Well, as always, the first answer to that has to be: Islam cares about you. And the second answer is that you don't have to be interested in Islam to find this book absolutely compelling. If you enjoy mysteries, this book tells the supremely thrilling story of a diverse band of canny sleuths - archeologists, linguists, historians, theological experts - who've spent much of their careers trying to solve what may be the biggest mystery ever. To make your way through this book, chapter by chapter, is to feel that you're seeing the cover being pulled back, layer by layer, on one of the most massive deceptions in the annals of humankind.

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