Sword of Islam 
Subtitle: Muslim Extremism from the Arab Conquests to the Attack on America
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781591020103
Subjects: Islam; Religious conflict; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; World history; Politics/International Relations; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Violence; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Religious aspects; Panislamism; International Relations - General; September 11 Terrorist Attacks
First sentence: A United States Navy presence in Aden harbor, a rocky outcropping in Yemen on the southern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, on the morning of October 12, 2000, was a classic example of the theories of U.S. Navy Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, whose work Navy Secretary Theodore Roosevelt would make required reading for the captains, the commodores, and the flag officers of the U.S. fleet.