We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization 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.

我们西方人对世界历史有一个共同的叙述。但我们的故事在很大程度上忽略了整个文明，而这些文明的公民在一千年里分享着完全不同的叙事。在《命运中断》中，塔米姆-安萨里讲述了伊斯兰世界所看到的丰富的世界历史故事，从穆罕默德时代到奥斯曼帝国的衰落，甚至更远。他阐明了为什么我们的文明在成长过程中彼此漠不关心，当它们交汇时发生了什么，以及伊斯兰世界是如何被其缓慢的认识所影响的，即欧洲--一个长期被其视为原始和无序的地方--以某种方式劫持了命运。