Editor’s note: Middle East Forum director Gregg Roman recently interviewed Raymond Ibrahim, formerly the associate director of the Forum and currently the Judith Friedman Rosen Writing Fellow. Ibrahim’s new book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West—a featured selection of the History Book Club and current best seller in several Amazon categories—was released earlier this week and is available at a variety of book distributors.
Roman: Welcome to this MEF interview, Raymond. Tell us a little bit about your new book, Sword and Scimitar. Ibrahim: Sure, Gregg, thank you. As indicated by its title, the book is first and foremost a military history, narrated around the two civilizations’ eight most decisive clashes.
If truth is stranger than fiction, so were these real-life battles more dramatic than the make-believe “epics” playing on television screens everywhere. (Of course, since they were also occasioned by Muslims invading and terrorizing the West from every corner and for over a millennium—that is, since they contradict the mainstream narrative of Muslims “grieved” by Western aggression—Hollywood will not touch them with a ten-foot pole.) But while these dramatic military encounters form the centerpieces of the book’s eight chapters, the bulk of the narrative chronologically traces and tells [...]
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