Raymond Ibrahim (born 1973) is an American author, translator, columnist, critic of Islam, and a former librarian.
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.
[8] In a 2012 report titled “Not Qualified: Exposing the Deception Behind America’s 25 top Pseudo-Experts on Islam,” the Muslim Public Affairs Councils states that, alongside Daniel Pipes, only Ibrahim has “the formal and verifiable academic credentials to be classified as an expert.” [9] [10] Ibrahim is the editor and translator of The Al Qaeda Reader, which he published after discovering a hitherto unknown Arabic al-Qaeda document; Ibrahim believes the document "proves once and for all that, despite the propaganda of al-Qaeda and its sympathizers, radical Islam's war with the West is not finite and limited to political grievances — real or imagined — but is existential, transcending time and space and deeply rooted in faith".
[4] Ibrahim has appeared on and been interviewed by Al Jazeera, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR, and Reuters, and "regularly lectures, briefs governmental agencies, provides expert testimony for Islam-related lawsuits, and testifies before Congress.
"[7] An article Ibrahim wrote on taqiyya, which was commissioned and published by Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst on September 26, 2008,[11][12] was later characterized by another author in Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst as being "well-researched, factual in places but ... ultimately misleading".