Naseem Hijazi
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Sharif Hussain (Urdu: شریف حسین), who used the pseudonym Nasīm Hijāzī (Urdu: نسیم حجازی, commonly transliterated as Naseem Hijazi or Nasim Hijazi) (c. 1914–March 1996), was an Urdu writer.[citation needed] He was born in an Arain family of the village of Sujaanpur near the town of Dhariwal, in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab, before the independence of Pakistan; they settled in Lahore in 1947. He lived most of his life in Pakistan and died in March 1996.[citation needed]
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Naseem Hijazi bases most of his work on Islamic history. In dealing with this history, he shows both the rise and fall of the Islamic Empire. His novels Muhammad Bin Qasim, Aakhri Ma'raka, Qaisar-o Kisra and Qafla-i Hijaz describe the era of Islam's rise to political, militaristic, economic, and educational power. While Yusuf Bin Tashfain, Shaheen,[1] Kaleesa aur Aag, and Andheri Raat ke Musafir describe the period of Spanish Reconquista. In one of these novels (Kaleesa Aur Aag) he has painfully, yet truthfully, depicted the infamous Spanish Inquisition that began by targeting the Spanish Jews and ended also with the conversion or expulsion of the Moriscos or crypto-Muslims outwardly converted to Christianity.[citation needed]
In Akhri Chataan, he describes the Central Asian conquests of Genghis Khan and his destruction of the Khwarizm Sultanate. The novel shows the brutal conquests of the Mongols, the military genius of Genghis Khan, the undying willpower of Sultan Jalal ud-Din Khwarizm Shah, and the unworthy condition of the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad.[citation needed]
He wrote two sequential novels on British conquest of India, and described the shortcomings of Indian nations after the collapse of Mughal Empire. Mu'azzam Ali starts a little before the Battle of Plassey. The lead character, Muazzam Ali, joins the fight against the British with the army of Siraj-ud-Daula. The story goes around as the character moves from one place in India to another in search of the lost glory and freedom.[citation needed] He takes part in the third battle of Panipat and finally settles in Srirangapattana, which was growing in power under the towering personality of Haider Ali. The book ends almost around the death of Ali. The second book, Aur Talwar Toot Gayee (And the Sword is Broken) is more about Haider's son Sultan Tipu, where the same character is finding his dreams being fulfilled in Tipu's valiant endeavors against the British East India Company. The book culminates in Sultan Tipu's sad and untimely martyrdom.[citation needed]
He also wrote a novel on the Independence of Pakistan named Khaak aur Khoon.[citation needed]
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External links
- "The Critical and Explorative Analysis of Nasim Hijazi's Historical Novel Writing", a PhD thesis written on Hijazi's writing
- Naseem Hijazi Urdu Novels List
- English translation of the novel "Shaheen" by Naseem Hijazi
- Articles with unsourced statements from October 2015
- Urdu-language writers
- Urdu-language novelists
- Pakistani historical novelists
- Pakistani writers
- Punjabi people
- 1910s births
- 1996 deaths
- 20th-century novelists
- Pakistani dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Urdu writers
- Urdu writers from Pakistan
- Urdu historical novelists
