Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

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ISBN 10: 1433272261 ISBN 13: 9781433272264

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2009

The award-winning author of West of Kabul, East of New York explores the history of the Muslim world, from the founding of Islam through the September 11 attacks, in an account that includes how the meeting of Western and Islamic cultures profoundly changed world history. Simultaneous.

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Review:

Tamim Ansary has written a truely superb history of the Islamic world. His excellent analysis provides the reader with an insightful understanding of how that world and its people were shaped by events. 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. --General Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (Ret)

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 uneasy, contentious post 9/11 world, a must-read. --Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

A must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world. But the book is more than just a litany of past events. It is also an indispensable guide to understanding the political debates and conflicts of today, from 9/11 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, from the Somali pirates to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. 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 Chronicle

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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