Zubair’s Bookshelf
Non-fiction for the intellectually curious —largely from the radiant realms of the East. Let the illumination begin!
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The Perks of Being a Bookworm: The Science of the Benefits of Reading
Could learning to read actually raise your IQ, sharpen your memory, and even improve your ability to recognize faces? And what happens to the human mind if we drift into a “post-literate” world of screens, scrolling, and AI?
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The Bookshop: A History of Bookselling from the Dawn of Print to the Twenty-First Century
Where did the bookshop as we know it actually come from, and why did it take five centuries after Gutenberg for it to emerge? And what does the turbulent history of bookselling reveal about our enduring love affair with books?
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The Orange Trees of Marrakesh: Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man
Six centuries before modern social science, how did a fourteenth-century Muslim judge come to write the world’s first structural history? And why does Ibn Khaldun belong in an intellectual lineage stretching from Aristotle to Montesquieu, H...
Reading Reflections - Defeating Jihad: the Winnable War, by Sebastian Gorka
The review below dates from 2016, with a few later updates. I generally steer clear of heavily political reviews these days, but I decided to make an exception. Some friends have also asked me to share my thoughts on how mainstream Sunni Is...
Astrology through History: Interpreting the Stars from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Present
Why did the Inquisition first summon Galileo not for Copernicanism, but for his ideas about astrology? And how did the art of interpreting the stars shape intellectual life from ancient Mesopotamia to the modern world?
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