"Ansary has written an informative and thoroughly engaging look at the past, present and future of Islam. With his seamless and charming prose, he challenges conventional wisdom and appeals for a fuller understanding of how Islam and the world at large have shaped each other. And that makes this book, in this uneasy, contentious post 9/11 world, a must-read." -- Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns "I'm in the middle of Tamim Ansary's Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes, and it's incredibly illuminating. Ansary pretty much covers the entire history of Islam in an incredibly readable and lucid way. I've been recommending this book to everyone I know. Especially when people are looking for a comprehensive-but-approachable way to look at world history through the lens of Islam, there's no better book." Dave Eggers"

Tamim Ansary is the author of the memoir West of Kabul, East of New York and co-author with Afghan land mine victim Farah Ahmadi of the New York Times bestseller The Other Side of the Sky. Ansary wrote the Afghanistan entry for the 2007 Berkshire encyclopedia Global Perspectives on the United States, and he has been a major contributing writer to several secondary school history textbooks including The Human Odyssey, Patterns of Interaction (high school world history by McDougal-Littell) and others.