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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, by Tamim Ansary
>A general overview of history, centered on islam, with its irrepressible centuries long rise and flowering that suddenly isn't so irrepressible and more generally just repressed. What went wrong? A study of a distinct civilization with its own golden ages and declines that intersects with western history, the book pays special attention to how islamic civilization's historical mission and destiny was perceived by muslim intellectuals in different periods. A very useful book for filling in broad gaps if your history education is overwhelmingly Europe and East Asia, Ansary's writing is passionate, casual and engaging in a way few history writers are. The broad survey style comes at the expense of greater detail, but it is a great launching point for looking into specific times and places in islamic history, and /lit/ probably doesn't know enough islamic history to be bored by a general introduction. The description of islam as a self-conscious community that tries to regulate its own behavior via political means was personally particularly informative
>A general overview of history, centered on islam, with its irrepressible centuries long rise and flowering that suddenly isn't so irrepressible and more generally just repressed. What went wrong? A study of a distinct civilization with its own golden ages and declines that intersects with western history, the book pays special attention to how islamic civilization's historical mission and destiny was perceived by muslim intellectuals in different periods. A very useful book for filling in broad gaps if your history education is overwhelmingly Europe and East Asia, Ansary's writing is passionate, casual and engaging in a way few history writers are. The broad survey style comes at the expense of greater detail, but it is a great launching point for looking into specific times and places in islamic history, and /lit/ probably doesn't know enough islamic history to be bored by a general introduction. The description of islam as a self-conscious community that tries to regulate its own behavior via political means was personally particularly informative
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