Raymond Ibrahim

Because I want the audience...

If you want to get educated, these are the three best.

They're highly readable, and Raymond writes it in a way that keeps you at the edge of your seat.

What is the first book, Sword and Scimitar?

What is that about?

Yeah, thanks, Steve.

So the first book is Sword and Scimitar, the subtitle, 14 Centuries of War Between Islam and the West.

And that one really follows the history of Islam's annexation and conquest of Western Christian territory, as I had been saying, Egypt and Syria.

All these nations that people seldom think of as being Western, well, they were part of Christendom, actually.

They were the older, richer, more

learned and sophisticated part of Christendom.

People forget.

And they were all violently conquered.

So Sword and Scimitar looks at that in the context of the eight most decisive battles that I talk about chronologically.

So the first one would be the Battle of Yarmouk, which led to the conquest of Syria and Egypt.

And the last one would be the siege of Vienna in 1683.

But I also talk about the Barbary Wars of America in 1801, 1805.

And then the second book would be Defenders of the West,

the Christian heroes who stood against Islam.

And this does, it follows the same trajectory, but now through the lives and the lens of these heroes, eight heroes.