Christianity vs Islam (Raymond Ibrahim) Bundle

1,400 Years of Conflict in Two Volumes

Raymond Ibrahim is a historian and linguist who reads Arabic primary sources that most Western academics skip. These two books represent his central project: a documentary history of the long war between Christendom and Islam, told through battles, sieges, and the commanders who fought them.

What's Included

Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (2018) — The full narrative arc from the Battle of Yarmuk in 636 to the siege of Vienna in 1683. Ibrahim treats each major engagement as a case study: the forces involved, the strategic context, the aftermath. He draws heavily on Arabic-language chronicles that Western readers rarely encounter, producing a history that reads differently from the standard textbook version.

Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam (2022) — Eight biographical portraits of the military leaders who held the line at various points across those fourteen centuries. El Cid, Godfrey of Bouillon, Richard the Lionheart, Fernando III, Skanderbeg, Vlad Dracula, John Hunyadi, and Jan Sobieski. Ibrahim presents them without modern apology, as men who understood exactly what they were fighting and why.

About This Edition

Author: Raymond Ibrahim
Format: 2-Book Bundle
Publisher: Various (Da Capo / Bombardier Books)
Sold by: The Rite Books