Summary of Tamim Ansary's Destiny Disrupted

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The Mediterranean was the center of world history for ship traffic. But if you look at overland traffic, the Grand Central Station of the world was the intersection of roads and routes connecting the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, the Iranian highlands, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. This eventually became the Islamic world.
#2 The Middle World is the area between the Mediterranean world and the Chinese world. It was a intercommunicating zone, and as a result, it developed somewhat distinct narratives of world history.
#3 The area where you now find Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan was the eastern edge of the world defined by sea-lanes, and the western edge of the world defined by land routes. This was the eastern edge of the Middle World, which had Mesopotamia and Persia as its core.
#4 The first civilizations emerged along the banks of various big slow-moving rivers subject to annual floods. The most dynamic petri dish of early human culture was that fertile wedge of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which is modern-day Iraq.

Sujets

• Israel
• Général
• Islam

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 20 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669355656
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Tamim Ansary's Destiny Disrupted
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Mediterranean was the center of world history for ship traffic. But if you look at overland traffic, the Grand Central Station of the world was the intersection of roads and routes connecting the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, the Iranian highlands, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. This eventually became the Islamic world.

#2

The Middle World is the area between the Mediterranean world and the Chinese world. It was a intercommunicating zone, and as a result, it developed somewhat distinct narratives of world history.

#3

The area where you now find Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan was the eastern edge of the world defined by sea-lanes, and the western edge of the world defined by land routes. This was the eastern edge of the Middle World, which had Mesopotamia and Persia as its core.

#4

The first civilizations emerged along the banks of various big slow-moving rivers subject to annual floods. The most dynamic petri dish of early human culture was that fertile wedge of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which is modern-day Iraq.

#5

The Amorites were the first people to establish a kingdom in Babylon, and they were the ones who built the famous city of Babylon. The Babylonians gave way to the Assyrians, who ruled from the even bigger and grander city of Nineveh. Their empire stretched from Iraq to Egypt.

#6

The Persian Empire was the first to use a many-people-under-one-big-tent strategy to control their vast realm. They allowed all the different constituent people to live their own lives according to their own folkways and mores, under the rule of their own leaders, as long as they paid their taxes and submitted to a few of the emperor’s mandates and demands.

#7

The Persian Empire was ruled by Darius, who brought the empire to its peak. The empire was tolerant of religion, and Zoroastrianism was the main religion. People were free to choose good or evil, and every choice had a significant impact on the universe’s outcome.

#8

The Persians, who were Zoroastrians, broke into the Mediterranean world and made a brief, big splash in Western history. They were thought by others to possess miraculous powers.

#9

The impact of Alexander’s eleven years in Asia faded. The Persian Empire was reestablished, and the Parthians, a nomadic tribe that had fought Rome to a standstill, became its rulers. They were very little interested in art and culture.

#10

The Parthians were a Iranian people who controlled the Middle East from about 220 BCE to about 650 CE. They protected and promoted trade, and caravans moved freely within their borders. The Parthians had little social intercourse with the Romans, except for fighting.

#11

The Roman Empire was falling apart, and in 293, Diocletian split the empire in two parts for administrative purposes. The eastern part, centered in Constantinople, continued to hang on, while the western part fell into ruin.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

During the late sixth century, several cities flourished along the Arabian coast. The Arabians received goods at Red Sea ports and took camel caravans across the desert to Syria and Palestine, transporting spice and cloth. They went north, south, east, and west, and knew about the Christian world and its ideas.

#2

When Mohammed was twenty-five, he was hired to manage caravans and conduct business for a wealthy widow named Khadija. He developed a close relationship with her, and they eventually married. When he was forty, he had a visitation from an angel who commanded him to recite.

#3

When he began preaching, Mohammed focused on the Ka’ba, the shrine in Mecca, and preached that there is only one God. He was met with resistance from the business leaders of Mecca, who were making good money from religious tourism.

#4

In 622, seven elders of the Quraysh tribe decided to have Mohammed killed while he slept. Luckily, Mohammed caught wind of the plot and foiled it with help from two close companions. The Prophet and Abu Bakr escaped to Yathrib, where some of Mohammed’s other followers had already moved.

#5

The migration of the Muslims from Mecca to Medina is known as the Hijra. The city was renamed Medina, which means the city in Arabic, and the Muslims were called Ansar, or the helpers.

#6

Islam is a religion, but it was also a political entity from the start. It prescribes a way to be good, and every devoted Muslim hopes to get into heaven by following that way. But Islam also presents a plan for building a world in which orphans won’t feel abandoned and in which widows won’t ever be homeless, hungry, or afraid.

#7

After the Hijra, the Muslim community in Medina grew quickly. The native Arabs of Medina gradually converted to Islam, but the city’s three Jewish tribes largely resisted conversion, and over time a friction developed between them and the Muslims.

#8

The Battle of Badr was a small battle in comparison to most real wars, but it was incorporated into Muslim theology and gave meaning to each one, explaining how Allah could lose battles but still be supreme. The Battle of Uhud raised a thorny theological question: if Badr showed the power of Allah, what did Uhud show. That Allah could also lose battles.

#9

The Battle of the Moat was a stalemate, but the Quraysh had mustered a force of ten thousand with such fanfare that failing to win was as bad as losing, and this loss helped to stoke a growing myth of Muslim invincibility.

#10

The Arabian peninsula was always filled with small tribal conflicts, and the Muslims were able to convert many of these tribes and bring them under their banner.

#11

In year 10 AH, Mohammed made one final pilgrimage to Mecca and gave a final sermon. He told the assembled men to regard the life and property of every Muslim as sacred, to respect the rights of all people, including slaves, and to recognize that among Muslims no one stood higher or lower than anyone else except in virtue.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The life of Mohammed, the prophet of Islam, was a religious metaphor that illuminated the meaning of existence. The entire drama from the revelation in the cave to the death of the Prophet’s fourth successor almost forty years later, forms the core religious allegory of Islam.

#2

The succession of the Prophet’s companions after his death was a tumultuous human drama that took place in the first twenty-nine years after his death. We cannot know the hard facts of this story in a journalistic way, but we can analyze the story of the story of the story and draw the allegorical significance of the raw events.

#3

When Prophet Mohammed died, the community had to elect a new leader. The new leader could not be just a king, because the Umma was not like any other community. The new leader had to have some special religious grace or power.

#4

After Mohammed’s death, Ali was chosen to be his successor. Ali was the first person to accept Islam, and he was the closest person to Mohammed besides Khadija. He had a special charisma that made him stand out among the other candidates.

#5

The election of Abu Bakr was contested by Ali, who was close to the Prophet. It took Ali six hard months to concede the election, and some of Abu Bakr’s more unruly followers threatened him and his family.

#6

After the Apostate Wars, Abu Bakr reunified Arabia within a year. He was a formidable strategist, but at home he exhibited nothing but modesty, affection, and benevolence. His one affectation was to dye his hair and beard red with henna.