Sharia Versus the U.S. Constitution: Why Americans Must Choose Freedom

PRAISE:

“Timely, passionate, and factual. Such a work cannot be ignored.”

— David Cook, PhD, Rice University; Author of Understanding Jihad and Martyrdom in Islam

"As a scholar who has spent decades working in the same Islamic primary sources that Dr. Ibrahim draws upon, I can attest that his handling of the material is responsible, accurate, and well-grounded. This book does not rely on secondhand characterizations or fringe interpretations—it engages classical Islamic jurisprudence on its own terms and lets the sources speak for themselves. The result is a work that serious scholars and general readers alike can trust."

— Gordon Nickel, PhD , Author, Narratives of Tampering in the Earliest Commentaries on the Qurʾan (Brill 2011), and The Quran with Christian Commentary

“I left Egypt decades ago, but Egypt never left me—and neither did the knowledge of what Islamic law produces when it governs a society. A. S. Ibrahim and I share that knowledge, born of the same experience and deepened by decades of study. He has now written what needed to be written: a clear, courageous, and thoroughly documented account of why sharia and the American Constitution cannot share the same ground. Every pastor, every lawmaker, and every American who cherishes the freedoms we sometimes take for granted should read this book and press it into the hands of others.”

— Michael Youssef, PhD, Founder, Leading The Way Ministries; Author, The Barbarians Are Here

“The question of whether classical Islamic law is compatible with the American constitutional order is one of the most consequential questions of our time—and it has been answered with far too much silence and far too little scholarship. Dr. A.S. Ibrahim is the scholar this moment has needed: a man trained in the primary Arabic sources of Islamic law, formed by firsthand experience of what that law produces when it governs, and committed to telling the truth about what he has found. I commend him and his work without reservation to every American who takes seriously both the gift of constitutional freedom and the obligation to defend it.”

— Jim Garlow, PhD, Pastor, Author, and Founder, Well Versed

“Distinguished scholar of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations, Dr. A. S. Ibrahim, has produced an essential resource for understanding the growing pressure to accommodate the Islamic sharia in the West. He makes a compelling case for Americans to choose freedom over sharia. The alternative is stark: a nation to sleepwalk into sharia means surrendering to tyranny and societal failure.”

— Mark Durie, PhD, Professor (Islamic Studies), Melbourne School of Theology; Author of The Third Choice

"With love for America and for our Muslim neighbors, Dr. Ibrahim chronicles why sharia law is in direct contradiction to the Constitution.”

— Sean McDowell, PhD, Professor (Apologetics), Talbot School of Theology; Author of The Fate of the Apostles
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Can a nation founded on the consent of the governed accommodate a legal system that claims divine authority over every area of life? In Sharia Versus the U.S. Constitution , Dr. A. S. Ibrahim offers a clear and rigorous answer.

Drawing on the Quran, the hadith, and centuries of Islamic jurisprudence, Ibrahim moves through the American constitutional order amendment by amendment, showing where its guarantees collide with the requirements of Islamic law. The Establishment Clause was written to prevent the fusion of religious and civil authority that sharia demands. The free exercise of religion cannot coexist with laws prescribing death for apostasy.

Born in Egypt and trained in the classical Islamic sources, A. S. Ibrahim writes with both scholarly authority and firsthand knowledge of what Islamic law looks like when it governs.