Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary Summary
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Ever wondered why East and West keep misunderstanding each other? "Destiny Disrupted" reveals history through Islamic eyes, challenging Western narratives while illuminating how two great civilizations developed in parallel, largely oblivious to each other - the hidden story behind today's global tensions.
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A Tale of Two Histories: The Forgotten Narrative
Imagine discovering that nearly two billion people have been reading an entirely different history book than you. Not just a different interpretation of the same events, but an entirely different story with its own beginning, middle, and end. This is precisely what Tamim Ansary reveals in "Destiny Disrupted." The Middle East isn't in perpetual conflict with the West because of policy failures or cultural incompatibilities, but because two distinct historical narratives have been running in parallel for centuries. The Islamic world developed its own historical consciousness separate from Western history-a consciousness that shaped the worldview of nearly a quarter of humanity. This isn't just academic trivia; it's why diplomatic efforts repeatedly fail and why conflicts persist. We've been trying to solve problems without acknowledging that we're operating from completely different stories.
The Middle World: Where Islamic Civilization Took Root
The Birth of a Community: Mohammed and the Hijra
Leadership After Mohammed: The Rightly Guided Ones
From Religious Movement to Empire: The Umayyad Transformation
The Flowering and Fragmentation of Islamic Civilization
When Worlds Collide: The Western Rise and Islamic Response
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