as young literate Muslims, we should preserve our writers’ treasure of written works. and also understand their books’ content, emphasis and even writing style.
those of us, who are not dazed by popular and wastefully abundant written fiction, novels and run of the mill stories, would find respite in our own regions’ writing by intellectuals and philosophers.
most revered of some of the writers - male or female, have always established a well-structured story that could speak to many and they could relate to those stories, because they were common people’s every day lives’ worth of truth.
in every story, the ending and the progress of each one of the character’s fate, through personal honest effort or at the causation of experiences in life, lends itself to a lesson and sometimes, those lessons will be universal and very truthful personally.
what we perhaps also might benefit from is getting copies of their original works and learning them, or teaching about them to others who are not from the same language or culture.
please share any good links, where you feel there are good books to buy from or you have actually bought books from.
Re: For Buying and Collecting Urdu Books by Intellectual Writers
to be honest, i have not read many. i do read language literature in english more than in Urdu. i would like writing styles of haseena moin, shuaib hashmi, qudsia bano, qudratualah shahab, etc., in prose. history and/or fiction is not of interest but i did read nasim hijazi's novels.
my opinion: good Urdu literature is a lot more conducive to an educative purpose, given the breadth of Urdu language's vocab, context, syntax, times in which authors write or wrote their works, such as Galib, therefore, the written text - the writings of old or contemporary Urdu writers have a flavor all their own - familiar and resonant when the reader can relate to them and/or find true meaning of differentiating the plots' success in laying out right from wrong, in the characters, the stories within the sub plots, the development, anti thesis of the stories, and the final shape or fate of the stories as well as the characters.
i like to read moral-full short stories from any culture on various issue topics.
and yourself?
best,
Dushwari
