Ansary Tamim. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

PublicAffairs, 2009. — 416 p. — eISBN : 978-0-786-74150-2.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.
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.Dedication
Names And Dates
Introduction
The Middle World Before Islam
The Hijra
The Second Khalifa: 14 - 24 AH
The Fourth Khalifa (35-41 AH, 656 - 661 CE)
Empire of the Umayyads
The Abbasid Age
The Sufis
Enter the Turks
Assault From The East
The Moghuls (Roughly 900 To 1273 AH)
Meanwhile in Europe
West Comes East
Islamist Modernism
Industry, Constitutions, and Nationalism
Rise of the Secular Modernists
The Crisis of Modernity
The Tide Turns
Afterword
Appendix - The Structure of Islamic Doctrine
Notes

Acknowledgements

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