Book Review
Title: Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Author: Tamim Ansary
Year: 2009
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 978-1-58648-813-0
I borrowed this one from a friend. It's history told as an epic story with "The Middle World" at the center. It is an excellent introduction to Islamic history.
Things I want to read more about:
-700-900 C.E. Muslim philosophers and mathematicians, including Ibn Sina/Avicenna -- medical
-Rabia al-Basri, poet and Sufi
-Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali, the scholar who wrote about Aristotle so well that the Europeans were re-introduced to him, and subsequently argued Greek philosophy was wrong
-The Assassins, from whom the word assassination comes
-Saladin, the legend version, extremely moral, and very successful. So I probably want historical fiction on this one.
-Muslim knights -- Sufi brotherhoods where "futuwwah" is similar to chivalry, and told legends about the early community of Muslims
-Rumi, the poet
-Sayyid Jamaluddin-i-Afghan, a reformer who traveled all over the Islamic world in the 19th century
Author: Tamim Ansary
Year: 2009
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 978-1-58648-813-0
I borrowed this one from a friend. It's history told as an epic story with "The Middle World" at the center. It is an excellent introduction to Islamic history.
Things I want to read more about:
-700-900 C.E. Muslim philosophers and mathematicians, including Ibn Sina/Avicenna -- medical
-Rabia al-Basri, poet and Sufi
-Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali, the scholar who wrote about Aristotle so well that the Europeans were re-introduced to him, and subsequently argued Greek philosophy was wrong
-The Assassins, from whom the word assassination comes
-Saladin, the legend version, extremely moral, and very successful. So I probably want historical fiction on this one.
-Muslim knights -- Sufi brotherhoods where "futuwwah" is similar to chivalry, and told legends about the early community of Muslims
-Rumi, the poet
-Sayyid Jamaluddin-i-Afghan, a reformer who traveled all over the Islamic world in the 19th century