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

The title of Ansary's book matches his talk: Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes. I haven't read a book like this before. Tamim Ansary, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes: An accurate, eloquent and humane work of popular history. It certainly goes some way towards filling a gaping hole in my knowledge of the world. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes Overview. The book starts by warning you that it's not a scholarly history book, but a book that reads like a conversation you'd have over dinner with a friend. Night after night I watch the television news with Shi'a and Sunni hostilities. One is Tamim Ansary's "Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes". Until about 1800, the West and the Islamic realm were like two adjacent, parallel universes, each assuming itself to be the center of the world while ignoring the other. Tamim Ansary is the author of Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes and West of Kabul, East of New York, among other books. Of all the talks I have heard at ALOUD, I found Ansary to be the most engaged and fascinating speaker to date.