Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes Reprint Edition

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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes Reprint Edition

Author(s): Tamim Ansary (Author)

  • Publisher: PublicAffairs
  • Publication Date: 27 April 2010
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 416 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1586488139
  • ISBN-13: 9781586488130

Book Description

We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years.

In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. He clarifies why our civilizations grew up oblivious to each other, what happened when they intersected, and how the Islamic world was affected by its slow recognition that Europe—a place it long perceived as primitive and disorganized—had somehow hijacked destiny.

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The Western narrative of world history largely omits a whole civilization. Destiny Disrupted tells the history of the world from the Islamic point of view, and restores the centrality of the Muslim perspective, ignored for a thousand years.

About the Author

Tamim Ansary is the author of the memoir West of Kabul, East of New York, co-author with Farah Ahmadi of the New York Times bestseller The Other Side of the Sky, and has been a major contributing writer to several secondary school history textbooks. Ansary is director of the San Francisco Writers Workshop.

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