"[1] According to Hebrew University professor Raphael Israeli, "the author delves in considerable detail into the main sources of Islamic jurisprudence - the Koran and the Hadith, complemented by the Sirah (the earliest pious Muslim biographies of Muhammad), where an abundance of references, usually not complimentary but rather derogatory, are made to Jews, collectively known as Israi'liyyat (Israelites' stories).

I somehow missed the references to the Aden and Moroccan massacres and the medieval pogroms and apologize for writing that they were not mentioned in the book.

Anti-Semitic essays, speeches and excerpted book passages by Muslim scholars, theologians and thinkers from the Middle Ages to the present.

"[3] Raymond Ibrahim wrote in The Washington Times that "one should not conflate Islam's mandates with the beliefs of the average "Muslim"; nor should all of these texts be construed as representative of all Muslims," while noting that the book "is a welcome contribution, in that it at least brings balance" to academia's "apologizing, distorting and especially ignoring Islam's most authoritative texts regarding Jews.

"[4] In the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, Alyssa A. Lappen found it a "landmark book" that was both "extensive" and "scientific", and which "informs self-respecting scholars that they can no longer shamelessly blame Christianity as the sole source of antisemitism—or more importantly, that Islam does not and never had its own innate brand of loathing for the Jewish people.