Destiny disrupted a history of the world through Islamic eyes [WorldCat Entities]

""With storytelling brio and evenhanded sympathy to all sides of the story, Ansary clarifies how the Muslim world sees the history of the world and what they therefore make of our own version of events."--Publisher's description."@en
"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. As Europeans colonized the globe, the two world histories intersected, and the Western narrative drove the other one under. The West hardly noticed, but the Islamic world found the encounter profoundly disrupting. By revealing that parallel "other" narrative to the chapter we are living today, this book will help us to make sense of today's world conflicts. Ansary traces the history of the Muslim world from pre-Mohammedan days through 9/11, introducing the people, events, and key turning points, not only in terms of what happened but also in terms of how those events were understood and interpreted."@en
"The author explores the history of the Muslim world, from the founding of Islam through the September 11 attacks, and discusses how the meeting of Western and Islamic cultures profoundly changed world history."
"Tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and beyond."@en
"Author Tamim Ansary explains how and why events in world history are perceived differently in the Muslim world."@en

Destiny disrupted a history of the world through Islamic eyes