With his seamless and charming prose, he challenges conventional wisdom and appeals for a fuller understanding of how Islam and the world at large have shaped each other. This is a must read for all those who want to understand the evolution of a significant global society and how it has interacted with the rest of the world.'' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns 'Ansary has written an informative and thoroughly engaging look at the past, present and future of Islam. His excellent analysis provides the reader with an insightful understanding of how that world and its people were shaped by events. Zinni, USMC (Ret) 'Tamim Ansary has written a truely superb history of the Islamic world. I found a remarkable guide in Tamim Ansary's Destiny Disrupted. Destiny Disrupted offers a vital perspective on world conflicts many now find so puzzling.īaptist Standard 'Reading Friedman, I was motivated to learn more about the Muslim view of world history. With storytelling brio, humor, and evenhanded sympathy to all sides of the story, Ansary illuminates a fascinating parallel to the world narrative usually heard in the West.

He clarifies why two great civilizations-Western and Muslim-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-had somehow hijacked destiny. He introduces the key people, events, ideas, legends, religious disputes, and turning points of world history, imparting not only what happened but how it is understood from the Muslim perspective.

His story moves from the lifetime of Mohammed through a succession of far-flung empires, to the tangle of modern conflicts that culminated in the events of 9/11. In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as it looks from a new perspective: with the evolution of the Muslim community at the center. 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. The Western narrative of world history largely omits a whole civilization.

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