Raymond Ibrahim
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1,204 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 9 Apr
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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.
So the sword and scimitars, eight battles, this is eight heroes.
And I go again chronologically.
So there are many biographies, many biographies of Christian warriors and their battles against Islam.
And I think there's a lot to learn from that and a lot of inspirational material as well.
And then the newest book, The Two Swords of Christ, which deals with the military orders, especially the Templars and the Hospitallers and their wars against Islam.
That really—and that's the longest book.
And that one really, if you're interested in the Crusades, this is it because—
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