It’s particularly of interest to note that in Bostom’s book, he basically exposes the Orientalist professoriate across the United States to be false - the celebrated Islamic false notion of “inner Struggle” - purported by scholars like Esposito, Edward Said, and ones like Harvard Islamic Society professor Zayed Yasin.
He uncovered this “false notion” of “Inner Struggle” by being one of the first to have translated from Arabic, the works of Sufi commentators, thus laying to rest the myth that Sufis always interpreted jihad as an inner moral struggle against one’s lower instincts.