Shaheen (novel)
Shaheen is a 1948 historical novel written in Urdu by Pakistani Islamic historian and novelist Naseem Hijazi.
It details the situation of the Muslims in Granada in 1492 when they were about to be expelled from Spain. The novel also depicts the reasons of the destruction of Muslim power in Granada.
Chapters
Baghi Sarhadi Uqaab Millat Firoush In Ka Maizbaan Rabia ka Izteraab Rabia kay Khuwab ki Tabeer Qoum aur us ka Sipahi Naye 'Azm Baap aur Beta Taar-e-'Ankaboot Mujahid aur Ghadaar- ''Siyah Posh''
Characters
- Moughera: a Muslim military commander who controlled a limited mountainous and forested area somewhere in the Emirate of Granada
- Badar bin Moughera: a military commander; the central figure of the book
- Musa ibn Abi al-Ghassan: a Granadan military commander
- Muhammad XII: the last Muslim ruler of Gharnata
- Ferdinand II of Aragon: King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516 and husband of Isabella I
- Isabella I of Castile: Queen of Aragon from 1479 until her death as the wife of King Ferdinand II
- Muhammad XIII of Granada: Abu Abdallah Muhammad az-Zaghal
- Rabia: wife of Badar bin Moughera
- Bashir bin Hassan: a physician / companion of Badar bin Moughera
- Count Santiago: a fictional character maybe based on the Legend of Saint Santiago in medieval Spain?
- Abu'l-Hasan Ali of Granada: father of Muhammad XII
- Mansour bin Ahmad: adjutant or second in command to Badar bin Moughera
- Abu Dawud: the traitor
- Miriya: christian wife of abu Dawud and mother of Angela / from Murcia
- Naeem bin Rizwan: a commander in Badar's army
- al-Zaighri: a high-ranking commander in Granadan army