Paula Bolyard, chief editor of PJ Media, recently wrote the following review, titled "Raymond Ibrahim's 'Defenders of the West' Makes for a Great Gift for the History Lover in Your Life": PJ Media contributor Raymond Ibrahim has written an engaging, scrupulously documented book chronicling stories of the men who defended the Christian West from the violent, sadistic Islamic … [Read more...]
When Christendom Learned to Fight Fire with Fire
The following book review by Lucine Kasbarian, a journalist and editorial cartoonist, recently appeared on American Thinker. Raymond Ibrahim's Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam, chronicles the lives of eight great Crusaders who defended Christians against Islamic extermination, savagery, occupation, and slavery. These heroes demonstrated … [Read more...]
Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology
Edited and trans. by James E. Lindsay and Suleiman A. Mourad. Cambridge, Mass.: Hackett Publishing, 2021. 320 pp. $63 ($21, paper). Reviewed by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East Quarterly Fall, 2022 Lindsay (Colorado State University) and Mourad (Smith College) write: This anthology is an attempt to bring to light a disparate selection of sources that in our assessment … [Read more...]
Defenders of the West
[Order Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim's Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam: HERE.] Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The following review by Tapson was first published by FrontPage Magazine. Historiography has been dominated in recent decades almost exclusively by leftists determined … [Read more...]
The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire
by Mitri Raheb Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2021. 207 pp. $24.99. Reviewed by Raymond Ibrahim Author of Sword and Scimitar Middle East Quarterly Summer 2022 Raheb, a Lutheran clergyman and academic in Bethlehem, argues that “Christian persecution is a Western construct that says more about the West than about the Christians of the Middle East.” Whatever persecution … [Read more...]