THE CHRISTIAN CRUSADES: A Defensive Response to Centuries of Islamic Jihad and Conquest

Edward D. Andrews

Mar 2026 · Christian Publishing House

About this ebook

For centuries, the Crusades have been portrayed as the ultimate symbol of unprovoked Christian violence, religious fanaticism, and imperial greed. But that story begins far too late—and hides far too much.

The Christian Crusades restores the missing history. Long before Pope Urban II called the First Crusade in 1095, the Christian world had already endured more than four centuries of Islamic conquest, church destruction, legal humiliation, forced pressure, heavy taxation, and relentless military aggression. Ancient Christian heartlands in Syria, Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, and beyond had fallen under Muslim rule, and millions of believers were reduced from free Christian majorities to persecuted minorities.

This book does not glorify war, nor does it whitewash the sins and failures of the crusading age. Instead, it tells the truth modern education and media so often suppress: the Crusades were not the beginning of Christian aggression, but a late, desperate, and often necessary defensive response to centuries of jihad and conquest. From the rise of Muhammad and the early Islamic expansions to the fall of Acre, from just war principles to modern anti-Christian distortions, and from the medieval battlefield to the Islamization of the modern West, this work confronts the full record with historical realism and moral clarity.

This is not a book of apology. It is a book of recovery—of truth, memory, and courage.

About the author

EDWARD D. ANDREWS (AS in Criminal Justice, BS in Religion, MA in Biblical Studies, and MDiv in Theology) is CEO and President of Christian Publishing House. He has authored over 220+ books. In addition, Andrews is the Chief Translator of the Updated American Standard Version (UASV).