Kaleesa Aur Aag; a Fabulous Urdu Historical Novel by Naseen Hijazi

Kaleesa Aur Aag (English: The Church and Fire) (Urdu: کلیسا اور آگ) is a fabulous and beautiful Urdu historic novel written by Sharīf Husain (Urdu: شریف حسین)-who used the pseudonym-Naseem Hijazi (Urdu: نسیم حجازی) the well known and legendary Urdu historic novel writer, who is better known for his novels, like Muhammad Bin Qasim (Urdu: محمد بن قاسم), Dastaan-E-Mujahid (Urdu: داستانِ مجاھد), Andheri Raat Ke Musafir (Urdu: اندھیری رات کے مسافر) and Shaheen (Urdu: شاھین), based on the History that shows both the rise and fall of Muslim Empires.

This novel is about the fall of Muslim Spain and aftershocks of that defeat. Naseem Hejazi-in this novel- 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.

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