Library
What's open on my desk right now, and the books that stayed with me after the last page. A line on what each one left behind.
Reading now
Prisoners of Geographyreading
Tim Marshall
Ten maps, and suddenly half the news makes sense.
The Sealed Nectar (Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum)reading
Safiur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
The Seerah of the Prophet (SCW), taken slowly. Every chapter humbles me.
Finished
Lost Islamic History2026
Firas Alkhateeb
The heritage they never taught us, from Baghdad to Timbuktu.
The Muqaddimah2025
Ibn Khaldun
He treated history as a science six centuries early. I quote him more than I should.
Why Nations Fail2025
Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
Institutions decide, not climate or culture. It reads like an argument with every excuse.