Destiny Disrupted is a narrative history of the Islamic world from the time of Muhammad to the early twenty-first century, written for general Western readers by the Afghan-American author Tamim Ansary and published in 2009 by PublicAffairs. It won the Northern California Book Award for general nonfiction in 2010.
Tamim Ansary · AuthorDestiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
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Tamim Ansary
About Tamim Ansary
Mir Tamim Ansary was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 4 November 1948, to an Afghan father and an American mother, and grew up in Afghanistan before moving to the United States as a teenager. He studied at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and made his career in San Francisco as a writer, editor and teacher of writing, moderating the San Francisco Writers Workshop for more than two decades and writing for educational publishers and the Encarta encyclopedia website. His memoir West of Kabul, East of New York (2002) grew out of a widely circulated email he wrote after the attacks of September 2001. His other books include the novel The Widow's Husband (2009), Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan (2012) and The Invention of Yesterday (2019).