Andrew G. Bostom

Andrew G. Bostom (MD, MS) is an American author and Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University Medical School.^[1] He is an expert on connections between homocysteine and cardiovascular disease.^[2]

He is also well known for his writings on Islam;^[3] he is the author of The Legacy of Jihad (2005), a work which provides an analysis of Jihad based on an exegesis of translations of Islamic primary sources done by other polemicists on the topic,^[4] and the editor of 2008 anthology of primary sources and secondary studies on the theme of Muslim antisemitism,The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History.^[5]

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^ The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: Andrew Bostom, Brown University, http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=1100923756, retrieved 2011-01-29 .
^ Selhub, J.; Jacques, P.F.; Bostom, A.G.; D'Agostino, R.B.; Wilson, P.W.F.; Belanger, A.J.; O'Leary, D.H.; Wolf, P.A. et al. (1995), "Association between plasma homocysteine concentrations and extracranial carotid-artery stenosis", New England Journal of Medicine (Mass Med Soc) 332 (5): 286 ; Jacques, P.F.; Selhub, J.; Bostom, A.G.; Wilson, P.W.F.; Rosenberg, I.H. (1999), "The effect of folic acid fortification on plasma folate and total homocysteine concentrations", New England Journal of Medicine (Mass Med Soc) 340 (19): 1449 ; Jacques, P.F.; Bostom, A.G.; Williams, R.R.; Ellison, R.C.; Eckfeldt, J.H.; Rosenberg, I.H.; Selhub, J.; Rozen, R. (1996), "Relation between folate status, a common mutation in methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, and plasma homocysteine concentrations", Circulation 93 (1): 7 .
^ Israeli, Raphael (May 16, 2008), "Bostom's legacy", Jerusalem Post .
^ Cosgrove-Mather, Bootie (December 14, 2005), Going Medieval, CBS News, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/13/opinion/main1123459.shtml .
^ "Islam’s history of anti-Semitism", Washington Times, May 20, 2008, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/may/20/islams-history-of-anti-semitism/ .