Destiny Disrupted : A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Paperback)

from MarcusAverius

As an introduction to Islamic History, this book is a good read. It has provided me with a well-structured outlook on the periods of history that I would like to look into in more detail. Each section of the book provides a narrative of Islamic civilisation during a vital period in the overall hi...

from stretch

Destiny Disrupted is not an academic history of the Islamic culture through the ages and Tamim Ansary doesn't pretend to be to be Islamic Scholar. What Destiny Disrupted is, is a very readable collection of the core stories that make up the Islamic history from its earliest beginnings to right th...

from jmoncton

I'll be the first to admit that I don't really like to read non-fiction. Although I find the occasional story of an important event in history interesting, a whole book - 17 hours of dates and facts? I was pleasantly surprised when I picked up Destiny Disrupted. A book about human history from an...

from Shrike58

A chatty and informative survey that had me hooked when Ansary first talked about meeting Arnold Toynbee as a boy and then flashes forward to 2000 and to when he was working on a world history textbook for kids in high school which had little to say about the Islamic world. At the time Ansary was...

from larryerick

There's a quote from award winning author, Dave Eggers, on the outside of the copy of this book that I read. "Incredibly illuminating... lucid...For a comprehensive-but-approachable way to look at world history through the lens of Islam, there's no better book." I can't guarantee that "there's no...