![]() ![]() In "Destiny Disrupted", Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, form the time of Mohammad to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. ![]() But our story largely omits a whole civilization that until quite recently saw itself at the center of world history, and whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years. We in the West share a common narrative of world history - that runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotamia, through Greece and Rome and the French Revolution, to the rise of the secular state and the triumph of democracy. This sweeping history illuminates how Muslims must have seen the history of the world - and what western world history leaves out. Industry, constitutions, and nationalism.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. ![]()
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