On one side you have people screaming "Islamophobe!" to shut down discussion, on the other you have people making serious arguments to the effect that OrcsMuslims are incapable of living in civilized society and that every single Muslim in the West is a collaborator with their radical brethren who want to make us all dhimmis.ĭestiny Disrupted is not a political book, except inasmuch as it touches this fraught relationship from a historical distance. fraught relationship with the West, any history of the religion and its people is inevitably likely to be seen through a political lens. Ansary traces the history of the Muslim world from pre-Mohammedan days through 9/11, introducing people, events, empires, legends, and religious disputes, both in terms of what happened and how it was understood and interpreted. This book reveals the parallel "other" narrative of world history to help us make sense of today's world conflicts. The West hardly noticed, but the Islamic world found the encounter profoundly disrupting. As Europeans colonized the globe, the two world histories intersected and the Western narrative drove the other one under.
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.
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