Destiny Disrupted

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CONTENTS List of Maps IX Names and Dates XI Introduction Xlll The Middle World 2 The Hijra 17 3 Birth of the Khalifate 33 4 Schi ...

viii CONTENTS 16 The Crisis of Modernity 17 The Tide Turns Afterword Appendix: The Structure of Islamic Doctrine Notes Bibliogra ...

LIST OF MAPS The Islamic World Today Growth of Islam xv The Mediterranean World (Defined by Sea Routes) The Middle World (Defin ...

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NAMES AND DATES Some writers are scrupulous about the system they use for transliterating Islamic names and words into English, ...

xii NAMES AND DATES era" system, because that's the framework with which most readers are familiar-and what's the point of givin ...

INTRODUCTION Growing up as I did in Muslim Afghanistan, I was exposed early on to a narrative of world history quite different f ...

xiv INTRODUCTION All the history and historical fiction I read from then on just added flesh to those bones. I still studied the ...

INTRODUCTION XV tuted the central topic of just one out of thirty chapters. The other two chapters in that unit were "Pre-Columb ...

xvi INTRODUCTION GROWTH OF ISLAM Given my personal stake, I could concede that I might be overestimat- ing the importance of Isl ...

INTRODUCTION xvii the United States, and nearly every other part of the globe, but it would be misleading, on that basis, to cal ...