I’ve always got four or five books going at the same time. One that I’ve been thoroughly enjoying is Destiny Denied: A History Of The World Through Islamic Eyes, by Tamim Ansary. In it, Ansary writes about Islamic civilization — its beginning, its spread, and its decline — as a way to help Western readers understand why Muslims see the world as they do.…
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