num_pages: 480
description: The loss of Muslim Spain is perhaps the greatest tragedy in Islamic conquest history. It is, perhaps, less on grounds of the loss of the Muslim Empire’s territorial hold on key European land, and more by the loss of the academic treasures, geniuses, brainpowers, savants, and talents that were forever trampled under the hooves of Ferdinand’s horses. The progenies of nations that learn not from their history remain forever clenched in torments and events similar to their ancestors. And the world is witnessing this today. The mournful echoes from the haunted palaces of Granada and Alhambra resonate wretchedly through the ravaged and burnt Muslim lands around the globe. Naseem Hijazi’s novels were written over sixty years ago and yet his words resound in present day like gongs of the Day of Judgement that one is forced to listen to even through covered ears. In translating this work, no names or events have been changed. Save a few secondary and supporting characters, all the rest of the detail is real, as are the struggles and victories of the main character Yusuf Ibn Tashfeen and other Muslim leaders, kings, viziers, and premiers in key positions. Yusuf Ibn Tashfeen is the first book in the series of how Muslim Spain gradually lost its stronghold on a lamp that had lit the world when all else was submerged in utter darkness and gloom. Yusuf Ibn-Tashfeen, the dynamic Muslim Mujahid, a Berber by ethnicity, was summoned by the Spanish Muslim emirs as a buttress when their already floundering kingdoms started to crumble in the face of the gradually strengthening Spanish Reconquista led by King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabela. Naseem Hijazi’s works are classics and this book has been translated with the hope that it will reach more readers and inspire as they were written to inspire. Whether or not the readers of this work are influenced by Hijazi's writing on the wall is a matter of choice.
language: Urdu
title: Yousuf bin Tashfin / یوسف بن تاشفین
publisher: Jahangir Book Depot