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The invention of yesterday : a 50,000-year history of human culture, conflict, and connection
\"A sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major civilizations and cultural movements--Confuscianism, Islam, Judeo-Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Nomadism--and the dramatic, sometimes ruinous, sometimes transformative effects of their ever closer intertwinement that has brought us to where we are today\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Destiny disrupted : a history of the world through Islamic eyes
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years. In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. He clarifies why our civilizations grew up oblivious to each other, what happened when they intersected, and how the Islamic world was affected by its slow recognition that Europea place it long perceived as primitive and disorganizedhad somehow hijacked destiny.
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