Destiny Disrupted on A Study in Scarlet: “Conan Doyle, for example, uses “Parthian shot” to mean “parting shot” in his 1886 novel A Study in Scarlet.”
Destiny Disrupted on Shahnameh: “the poet Firdausi, who was writing Shahnama (The Book of Kings), an epic history of the Persian nation from the beginning of time to the birth of Islam, all in rhyming couplets.”
Destiny Disrupted on Jami al-Tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles): “Rashid al-Din Fazlullah, a Jewish convert to Islam, wrote an epic Collection of All Histories, which included the history of China, India, the Turks, the Jews, the pre-Islamic Persians, Mohammed...”
Destiny Disrupted on Islam in Modern History: “I took along a book that I had found in a used bookstore in London, Islam in Modern History by the late Wilfred Cantwell Smith, a professor of religion at McGill and Harvard.”
Destiny Disrupted on The Travels of Marco Polo: “they called Marco Polo's book about his adventures “The Millions,” referring to the number of lies they thought he had packed into it.”
Destiny Disrupted on Muqaddimah: “Ibn Khaldun. (Ansary discusses Ibn Khaldun's theory of history; candidate context was a bare reference.)”