Adnan Rashid – My Favourite Bookshop in Islamabad

			Salam Alaikum everyone I am in Islamabad currently visiting
		

			the janal supermarket the famous gentle supermarket you can see all the hustle and bustle behind me
outside. And I am in one of my favorite places in this market. And that is this bookshop. What is
this bookshop quality?
		

			Connection, whole books collection old this is my friend from old books collection in gentle
supermarket as soon as you enter the market, you will see the bookshop on the left. And it is full
of wonderful books. And my friend here is the proprietor. What's your name? Sir?
		

			Fareed. Ahmed is the proprietor and he's been there for many years. I have seen him around, and
Subhanallah look at these books. Some of these books are absolutely amazing. Okay, you can look at
these books in the title of Islam in history by Bernard Lewis, one of those Islamophobes
		

			who has since passed away, I think this is one of his books. He was a scholar of Islamic history, no
doubt, but he was a bit hostile to Islam.
		

			You see, most scholars have their biases and prejudices, prejudices, so no one is safe from Okay.
Another very interesting book, Moorish Spain, on
		

			Islamic Spain, you will find many, many many interesting books here. You know, this bookshop is full
of absolutely amazing books. That famous book I always recommend to people.
		

			Last Islamic history, a fascinating book, a very good introduction to the history of the Muslim
civilization or the Islamic civilization. Okay. There is another book I saw in the shell Fair, which
I strongly recommend is Osmonds dream Osmonds dream is by Caroline Finkel. And this is a history of
the Ottoman Empire, which is a very, very good treatment of the topic. And it's a good introduction.
I mean, it's quite extensive. The book is quite detailed, but it is a good introduction. So for free
by tell us if people have lost interest in books, is it? Is it a booming business business? Or is it
is it declining? I think that people who used to read books are still reading books, and you still
		

			have some time you read, it's pretty hard to see that it is declining. But yes, you're right,
because now they have internet and all that becomes difficult for us. But Internet doesn't mean that
they are reading more books. Now that means that that means they're reading more statuses, Facebook
posts, Instagram posts, but not books necessarily. They're actually spending their time online so
far.
		

			As I've mentioned, repeatedly in my videos that we were the most Bookly people in the world and as a
civilization as a people as a as an Oma. We have become the most bookless people in the world. And,
you know, as full as this bookshop may look, you know, not many people buy books. Unfortunately,
nowadays, people have lost interest and books. And you can see this place is full of absolutely
amazing books. So any one of you who visit Islam about anytime soon, do visit the gentle
supermarket, the Jenna super market, and this old bookshop and one of my favorite sections is this
section section on India, Indian history. There are some amazing books on the history of India here.
		

			You know, I can see some of them right now in front of me, and maybe I can pick one of them and talk
about it like William Dalrymple's, the last model, very good book, the last model William
Dalrymple's. Okay.
		

			And some other books.
		

			Let me let me, let me let me level
		

			okay. So
		

			they're all buried underneath. Okay, so there are so many books on India, that I simply cannot pull
one of them out and talk about it because there's so many different books on different topics. Okay,
like for example, this one is long runs history of India. Okay, this is a good one. Not highly
recommended dog because it's old is outdated, but there are some very recent books. Okay, so this is
one of my favorite places, brothers, sisters in Islam, but then I do visit Pakistan when I do. I
come to this bookshop and I always find gems, and I strongly recommend this place. So the purpose of
making this video is to encourage you to start reading, start reading, start reading about your
		

			history, start reading about yourself, start reading about the world and see what we are made off
right. We can only get to know our civilization when we read books on it. Okay, so start studying
books on the Muslim history in particular and global history in general, and then we can live as
better citizens in this world.
		

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