Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and lives in Selma, California.
"With passion, Raymond Ibrahim offers an edgy and eye-opening
introduction to a millennium of warfare between the Muslim and
Christian worlds before the modern age."--Thomas Madden,
award-winning author of Istanbul, Venice, and
Concise History of the Crusades
"Raymond Ibrahim has the humility to take seriously the voices and
opinions of history's Christians and Muslims; the result is a
refreshingly honest account of Islamic expansion and Christian
reaction that provides useful insights into today's problems. This
is history as it should be done: allowing the past to inform and
guide the present, rather than distorting the past to fit
contemporary political ideologies."--Paul F. Crawford,
Crusades historian, California University of Pennsylvania
"An accessible and well-researched examination of extremely
important but often neglected cultural phenomena and historical
events that have impacted several civilizations up to the present
day."--Dario Fernandez-Morera, Northwestern University,
author of The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims,
Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain
"Ibrahim tells this history vividly, clearly, and
engagingly."--American Thinker
"Enlightening for readers unfamiliar with the long history of war
between these two faiths."--New York Journal of Books
"Impressively informative, Sword and Scimitar is an
exceptional work of outstanding scholarship that is so well written
it reads more like a deftly crafted novel than a non-fiction
history."--Midwest Book Review
"A riveting account of the major battles between Islam and the
West."--Catholic World Report
"Raymond Ibrahim's Sword and Scimitar is a riveting military
history of eight pivotal battles between the armies of Islamdom and
Christendom. Ibrahim tells his story with extensive citations of
primary sources which vividly bring to life the bloody fighting.
Moreover, his method reveals the religious, political, and material
motivations of the leading Christian and Muslim actors in this
enduring conflict of visions that seem so very different from many
modern western secular sensibilities."--James E. Lindsay,
Professor of Middle East History, Colorado State University
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