Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (997 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00282MRLS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 199 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ansary is director of the San Francisco Writers Workshop. . 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 text
"Liberal or conservative, religious or non religious--this is a book all should read." according to charles edmonds. Destiny Disrupted is a must book for all of us who value our American Culture and what to understand why we as a people and country are embroiled in conflicts in the middle east Why, because this is one of the few books that helps the reader understand the political, social, cultural, militaristic forces at work since 9-11-01. However, these forces did not just pop up because of an act of terrorism but as the author points out there are two worlds, European/Christian and Arab/ Islam hav. hawaii user said I was surprised at the honesty of the author.. I was surprised at the honesty of the author. I expected it to be a rah rah book about Islam and it wasn't. Instead it was about people who a convoluted history with a totally different world view than those of us educated in the west.. this is an excellent journey beyond the Ottoman Empire and a fantastic perspective Rachael Having previously read the Ottoman Centries by Lord Kinross I would not have found this work of historical art had it not been for a random exchange of conversation on a recent train ride from NYC! I wish to thank the lovely conversationalist from France sitting next to me, as his recommendation has further expanded my understanding of Islam this is an excellent journey beyond the Ottoman Empire and a fantastic perspective for any world traveler! Qui n’avance pas, recule!
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.. We in the west share a common narrative of world history
Ansary pretty much covers the entire history of Islam in an incredibly readable and lucid way. And that makes this book, in this uneasy, contentious post 9/11 world, a must-read."Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns"I'm in the middle of Tamim Ansary's Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes, and it's incredibly illuminating. As Ansary writes in his conclusion, "The conflict wracking the modern world is not, I think, best understood as a 'clash of civilizations.' It's better understood as the friction generated by two mismatched world histories intersecting." San Francisco Chr