The Surrendered Continent

The Surrendered Continent is the second volume in Islam and the West, a three-volume series by scholar A. S. Ibrahim examining the rise and reach of political Islam in the modern world. This volume turns to Europe, analyzing how Islamist movements engage with European societies, institutions, and public life, and how governments have responded.Drawing on primary sources, classical Islamic texts, and contemporary events, Ibrahim distinguishes political Islam as an ideology from Islam as a faith, and traces how that ideology advances across the continent-through immigration and integration debates, the politics of national identity, and the contest over law, speech, and public space. The book approaches a charged subject with historical context, careful argument, and scholarly restraint rather than polemic.Collected from Ibrahim’s essays and paired with new retrospective commentary, the volume offers general readers, students, faculty, and policymakers a documented and accessible account of one of the defining questions facing Europe today.A. S. Ibrahim holds PhDs from Fuller Theological Seminary and the University of Haifa and is professor of Islamic studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of more than fifteen books.