This is an absolutely fantastic book: an engaging, readable, at times even exciting primer on the history of the Muslim world, and world history as Muslims understand it. The author, a former textbook developer, clearly knows his stuff, but his genius is in the ability to draw many historical elemen...
Excellent history written with compassion and clarity. Tamin Ansary succeeds in covering two centuries of Afghan history without sounding bitter or cynical, despite confronting with open eyes the often appalling ingredients of his story. Threaded through a history of violence and reaction he ...
Farah was born in Afghanistan and was fairly happy there with her family. But, one day while on her way to school, she stepped on a landmine and she lost a leg. She was lucky enough to be chosen to go to Germany, but while she was gone for nearly two years the war had gotten worse in her home countr...
I picked this book up to read because the author also wrote a book on Islamic history that I thought was worthwhile (see http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/239634924 ). Always wanting to know the background of the historians, I decided to read about the author himself.Tamim is the middle of three...
This is a very worthwhile book to read. I am in the process of educating myself more fully about Islam, the history of the religion, and the impact it is having in our world today. The author, Tamim Ansary, was born in Afghanistan to an Afghan father and American mother. He won a scholarship to a...
This looks interesting. Could be a cool companion read with...y'know, that other book about the Crusades through Arab eyes.
I'll be the first to admit that I don't really like to read non-fiction. Although I find the occasional story of an important event in history interesting, a whole book - 17 hours of dates and facts? I was pleasantly surprised when I picked up Destiny Disrupted. A book about human history from an...
i really enjoyed this memoir by tamim ansary, who was a regular when i worked at dog eared books and is a really nice guy as well as a terrific writer. if you want it, email me & i'll mail it to you.
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