Naseem Hijazi

"Sharif Husain" redirects here. For the Arabian leader, see Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.

Naseem Hijazi
Born	Sharif Hussain 1914 Gurdaspur district, Punjab, British India
Died	2 March 1996
Nationality (legal)	Pakistani
Occupation	Urdu language novelist
Awards	Pride of Performance Award in 1992

Sharif Hussain (Urdu: شریف حسین), who used the pseudonym Nasīm Hijāzī (Urdu: نسیم حجازی, commonly transliterated as Naseem Hijazi or Nasim Hijazi) (c. 1914–2 March 1996), was an Urdu novelist. He was born in an Arain family in the village of Sujaanpur near the town of Dhariwal, in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab, before the independence of Pakistan; his family settled in Lahore in 1947. He lived most of his life in Pakistan and died on 2 March 1996.

His Novels

Naseem Hijazi bases most of his work on Islamic history and 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, Kaleesa Aur Aag, and Andheri Raat Ke Musafir describe the period of Spanish Reconquista.

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.

He wrote two sequential novels on British conquest of India, and described the shortcomings of many nations within India after the collapse of Mughal Empire. The novel 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 moves forward as the character moves from one place in India to another in search of the lost glory and freedom. 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 on the battles in the same area, 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.

He also wrote a novel Khaak aur Khoon on the violence that resulted in tremendous bloodshed in 1947, caused by the religious tensions being flared up among Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus alike, at the time of the partition of British India and the Independence of Pakistan.

Publications

Title (Roman)	Title (English)	Title (Urdu)	Genre	Historical Period/Events
Khaak aur Khoon	Dirt and Blood	خاک اور خون	Novel	British Indian Empire, Partition of India in 1947, Creation of Pakistan
Yousuf bin Tashfin	Yousuf Son of Tashfin	یوسف بن تاشفین	Novel	Al-Andalus, First Taifas period, Almoravid Empire, Spanish Reconquista
Akhari Chattan	The Last Rock	آخری چٹان	Novel	Siege of Jerusalem (1187) – Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders, Mongol invasion of Khwarezmia and Eastern Iran, Fall of Baghdad (End of Abbasid Caliphate)
Aakhari Maarka	The Last Battle	آخری معرکہ	Novel	Invasions of India by Mahmud of Ghazni
Andheri Raat Ke Musafir	Travelers of the Dark Night	اندھیری رات کے مسافر	Novel	Spanish Reconquista, Fall of Granada
Kaleesa Aur Aag	Church and Fire	کلیسا اور آگ	Novel	Spanish Reconquista, Spanish Inquisition, expulsion of the Moriscos-(continued from the end of Andheri Raat Ke Musafir.) Read Kaleesa Aur Aag Online
Muazzam Ali	Muazzam Ali	معظم علی	Novel	British Indian Empire, Battle of Plassey, Third Battle of Panipat, Anglo-Mysore Wars (Hyder Ali's Era)
Aur Talwar Toot Gai	And the Sword Broke	اور تلوار ٹوٹ گئی	Novel	Anglo-Mysore Wars (Tipu Sultan's Era_ Continued from end of 'Muazam Ali')
Daastaan-e-Mujahid	A Soldier's Tale	داستان مجاہد	Novel	Arab Ummayad Caliphate-Muslim Conquest of Al-Andalus, Sindh, Central Asia and Maghreb.
Insaan Aur Devta	Man and God	انسان اور دیوتا	Novel	Ancient India–brutality of upper casts people towards people of lower cast in the Hindu religion
Muhammad Bin Qasim	Muhammad Bin Qasim	محمد بن قاسم	Novel	Muslim Conquest of Sindh
Pakistan Se Diyare Haram Tak	From Pakistan to Sacred Land	پاکستان سے دیار حرم تک	Travelogue
Pardesi Darakht	The Foreign Tree	پردیسی درخت	Novel	British Indian Empire, A few years before partition of British India
Gumshuda Qaafley	The Lost Caravans	گمشدہ قافلے	Novel	British Indian Empire, Partition of India, Creation of Pakistan-(continued from the end of Pardesi Darakht.)
Pouras Ke Hathi	Poras's Elephants	پورس کے ہاتھی	Drama	Indo-Pak war of 1965
Qafla-e-Hijaz	The Caravan of Hijaz	قافلئہ حجاز	Novel	Rashidun Caliphate, Muslim conquest of Persia
Qaisar-o-Kisra	Caesar and Cyrus	قیصر و کسر'ی	Novel	Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628, Rise of Islam in Arabian Peninsula
Saqafat Ki Talaash	In Search of Culture	ثقافت کی تلاش	Drama, Humor
Shaheen	The Falcon	شاہین	Novel	Spanish Reconquista, Fall of Granada. An English translation of the novel can be viewed at http://shaheenthenovel.weebly.com/, Retrieved 14 Jan 2016
Sau Saal Baad	100 Years Later	سو سال بعد	Novel, Humor
Sufaid Jazeera	The White Island	سفید جزیرہ	Novel, Humor

External links

• http://shaheenthenovel.weebly.com/, English Translation of Naseem Hijazi's novel 'Shaheen' on weebly.com website, Retrieved 14 Jan 2016
• http://www.urduebooks.com/2017/10/kaleesa-aur-aag-urdu-novel-online.html Naseem Hijazi's Famous Urdu Novel "Kaleesa Aur Aag"