Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam

Eight Warriors Who Shaped the Frontier

Raymond Ibrahim's Defenders of the West profiles eight Christian military leaders who fought against Islamic expansion across nearly a thousand years of history. The figures are El Cid, Godfrey of Bouillon, Richard the Lionheart, Ferdinand III of Castile, John Hunyadi, Skanderbeg, Vlad the Impaler, and John III Sobieski. Each chapter functions as a standalone biography, grounded in primary sources and focused on the military campaigns that defined these men's lives.

A Companion to Sword and Scimitar

Where Ibrahim's earlier book, Sword and Scimitar, surveyed the major battles between Islam and Christendom, Defenders of the West shifts the focus to the individuals who led those battles. Ibrahim, a scholar of Arabic and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, reads the Arabic and Latin sources directly. The result is a corrective to the standard Western narrative, which tends to reduce the entire history of Christian-Muslim conflict to the Crusades. The Bombardier Books hardcover is the first edition.

About This Edition

Author: Raymond Ibrahim
Publisher: Bombardier Books
Format: Hardcover