Defenders of the West
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Defenders of the West
| Full title | Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam |
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| Author | Raymond Ibrahim |
| Published | 2022 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Ibrahim’s set of eight biographies — Godfrey of Bouillon, El Cid, Richard the Lionheart, Vlad the Impaler, John Hunyadi and others — argued explicitly as a corrective to what he takes to be a sanitised account of the medieval conflict with Islam. Polemical by design; read as an argument, not a survey. |
Where I heard about it
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Replies to @typesfast — recommended in the replies when he asked on X “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. Full list: What’s the best history book… (tweet).
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@patrick_oshag’s thread — named in the replies to his question “Anyone read anything thought provoking lately ?”, October 2026 (@mark_collins09, a photo of the cover). Full set of replies: Anyone read anything thought provoking… (tweet).
Connections
- Christianity — the frame the book argues from.
- Religious Intellectualism — religion as the organising claim of a history rather than its subject.
- History — an openly revisionist account, worth reading as a position.
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.