Destiny Disrupted: An In-Depth Look at the World Through Islamic Perspectives

Lives Among Savages: Well-written historical account of "Middle World" history from an Islamic point of view. Illuminates the history behind many of the current events in the news today from this region of the world. This book was a pleasure to read, and I learned a great deal in the process.

United States on Dec 21, 2023

Sriram Iyer: Exceptionally well written account of not just the history and origins of Islam but also a very nuanced account of the more recent history that led to the various upheavals in the Middle East.

India on Aug 15, 2023

Amazon Kunde: People in the review section losing their minds because this book contradicts western narrative about a few things.
This is a book about the view on history from Islamic eyes. Of course thinks will be written in a different way when you tell the story out of a pov.
In conclusion: this book is amazing.
I really enjoyed reading it and learnt a lot about Islam and the Middle East itself.
It really made me question a lot about what I thought of „history“ so far.
If you like it or not, people will always write and tell things differently when it benefits them. Do your fact checks through multiple sources and get your own understanding.

Germany on Jul 02, 2021

Alfredo: Very fast seller. And very reliable, and very kind.
Simply perfect.

Italy on Feb 06, 2020

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Japan on Dec 23, 2019

Dr. James B. Ellsworth: After three decades as a U.S. military leader--rising to the highest levels leading in the counternarrative fight--and half of that spent STUDYING Islam, I kinda thought I had a decent grasp of the Muslim world's historical narrative. Having taught War College, I knew Islam's history of expansion as the faith grew. I knew many of the great names--some, like the Rashidun Caliphs, through spiritual study; some, like Saladin and Tamerlane, through their military prowess. I even knew that several of the great philosopher-scientists of "our" history, like Averroes & Avicenna were, in fact, the great Islamic theologians & jurists Ibn Rushd & Ibn Sina. So when I bought this book a few years back, I was mainly looking for a tool to help me TEACH OTHERS that world history isn't just the set of objective facts we learn in Western schools, but instead more like a play rewritten again & again to cast each of its characters in turn as the lead. I got that--but I also learned a lot MYSELF--and I just completed my SECOND read through.

Perhaps most important, this book overviews the CONNECTIVE TISSUE tying all those HISTORICAL EVENTS that I knew into HISTORY--through which...

United States on May 01, 2018

Gemba: This book is well written in an accessible rather than scholarly style. The writer sets out to write a history of civilisation from a middle eastern, and more explicitly Muslim, rather than a western, point of view. He explains what it means to change one's stance in writing history. In this he mainly succeeds. A good example is of course the Crusades, where Muslim side was civilised whereas the Crusaders were a bunch of crude Barbarians; this is a truer picture of the events, as the memoir of Villehardouin shows. Coming to the present, this book helps us to understand the differences between Sunni and Shia, and the genesis of Wahabis, Ba'ath, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc. It gives much matter for thought, and has become very timely as we face a world in which foreign policy is facing new challenges, and the American hegemony is coming to an end in chaos.

Canada on Mar 27, 2017

Frank Bellizzi: As Americans moved past the initial shock of September 11, 2001, they began to ask a number of searching questions: Who were those people? What motivated them to give their lives for something so terrible? Who supported their senseless violence? And why do they hate us?

We soon learned that those nineteen men who hijacked four airliners and destroyed the lives of thousands were self-proclaimed Muslims. They did not represent any one nation. Their common bond was the culture of radical Islam. Upon learning that, Americans then wanted to know what it was about the terrorists' religion that led them to believe that their actions were justified. Did they represent only the lunatic fringe? Or were their convictions and deeds much closer to the heart of Islam?

President George W. Bush gave his answer when he told Americans, "These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith." But not everyone was so sure. In a 1996 book titled The Clash of Civilizations, Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington had claimed that the cultures of the Muslim world and of the West were inherently at odds with each other, and that the lines between them...

United States on Apr 20, 2014