当前位置：

Destiny Disrupted

作者：Tamim Ansary

出版社：PublicAffairs

出版年：2010-4-27

评分：8.8

ISBN：9781586488130

所属分类：行业好书

书刊介绍

内容简介

We in the west share a common narrative of world history—that runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotomia, through Greece and Rome and the French Revolution, to the rise of the secular state and the triumph of democracy. But our story largely omits a whole civilization that until quite recently saw itself at the center of world history, and whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years.

In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary 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. He clarifies why our civilizations grew up oblivious to each other, what happened when they intersected, and how the Islamic world was affected by its slow recognition that Europe—a place it long perceived as primitive and disorganized—had somehow hijacked destiny. Entertaining and enlightening, Destiny Disrupted also offers a vital perspective on current conflicts.

作品目录

1. The Middle World
2. The Hijra
3. Birth of the Khalifate
4. Schism
5. Empire of the Umayyads
6. The Abassid Age
7. Scholars, Philosophers, and Sufis
8. Enter the Turks
9. Havoc
10. Rebirth
11. Meanwhile in Europe
12. West Comes East
13. The Reform Movements
14. Industry, Constitutions, and Nationalism
15. Rise of the Secular Modernists
16. The Crisis of Modernity
17. The Tide Turns
· · · · · ·

作者简介

Tamim Ansary is the author of the memoir West of Kabul, East of New York, co-author with Farah Ahmadi of the New York Times bestseller The Other Side of the Sky, and has been a major contributing writer to several secondary school history textbooks. Ansary is director of the San Francisco Writers Workshop.