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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Held between West and East, the Islamic world emerged within an early mercantile and pagan society.
Chapter 3: Muhammad built the Muslim community, then leadership passed to the khalifas.
Chapter 4: Following four khalifas, two dynasties assumed rule: the Umayyads, followed by the Abbasids over the caliphate.
Chapter 5: Running parallel to politics, Islamic scholarship, philosophy, and mysticism were developing too.
Chapter 6: At the peak of its glory, the Islamic world first cracked, and then it began to crumble.
Chapter 7: After devastation came rebirth—but as the Islamic world was reborn, Europe was simultaneously on the rise as well.
Chapter 8: With Europe ascending, the Islamic world slid into decline and downfall thereafter.
Chapter 9: In the nineteenth century, three European ideals transformed the Islamic world forever.
Chapter 10: After World War II, intense resentment toward Israelis and Americans spread widely across the Islamic world.
Description
Destiny Disrupted (2009) tells history from an Islamic perspective. It begins before the emergence of Muhammad and Islam in the seventh century CE and ends with the decline of the Islamic empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. On this epic journey, Tamim Ansary describes the fascinating stories of great Muslim states, scholars and leaders – a perspective on history that is, unfortunately, widely unknown to most Westerners.
Who Should Listen
- Historians and students of religion
- Westerners curious about the Islamic perspective on world history
- Readers eager to learn more about Islamic culture and religion