Tamim Ansary

"A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world" (San Francisco Chronicle) We in the West share a common narrative of world history. However, our story largely omits a whole civilisation whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years, as seen by the Islamic world, from the time of...

In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary delivers a captivating narrative that recontextualises world history from the perspective of the Islamic world. From the birth of Islam with the Prophet Mohammed, through the flourishing golden age of science and culture, to the eventual decline marked by the fall of the Ottoman Empire and beyond, Ansary provides readers with a comprehensive and enlightening...