Destiny disrupted: a history of the world through Islamic eyes
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TextPublication details: New York : PublicAffairs, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxii, 390 p. : maps ; 25 cmISBN: - 9781586488130
- DS35.63.A57
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| DS19. M687 The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East | DS33.4.J3 N47 Network Power : Japan and Asia | DS35.63 A History of Islamic Societies | DS35.63.A57 Destiny disrupted: a history of the world through Islamic eyes | DS37.7 .D33 The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West | DS38.7 The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East | DS61.7.B37 W56 Gertrude Bell |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-370) and index.
The middle world -- The hijra -- Birth of the khalifate -- The schism -- Empire of the Umayyads -- The Abassid age -- Scholars, philosophers, and sufis -- Enter the Turks -- Havoc -- Rebirth -- Meanwhile in Europe -- West comes East -- The reform movements -- Industry, constitutions, and nationalism -- Rise of the secular modernists -- The crisis of modernity -- The tide turns.
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