“A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” ( San
Francisco Chronicle ) 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 as the Islamic world saw it from the time of Mohammed
through the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the events of 9 11 and beyond. In Destiny
Disrupted Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it. 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. With
sympathy to Muslim and Western perspectives alike Destiny Disrupted offers a fresh and vital
perspective on world conflicts we thought we understood.
