Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes [Paperback]

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

InDestiny 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. 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. 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.

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.

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.Destiny Disruptedoffers a vital perspective on world conflicts many now find so puzzling.
Tamim Ansaryis the author of the memoirWest of Kabul, East of New York, co-author with Farah Ahmadi of theNew York TimesbestsellerThe 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. Ansary has written an informative and thoroughly engaging look at the past, present and future of Islam. 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. And that makes this book, in this uneaslÓà