Abstract

 
Abstract
“Muhammad Bin Qasim” is famous historic novel penned by Nasim Hijazi [1914-1996] to promote pan-Islamist and patriotic sentiments in readers. The novel is being published repeatedly since its first print in 1950, just three years after creation of Pakistan; and fictionalized early Muslim conquest of India. Since Neo-historicism theory provide strong theocratical base to assess literary text especially historic novels, in this article an attempt is made to analyze the MBQ against the theories. The results show that now in global village, the treatment and style of the novel is of interest to very limited group of readers and its scope for a global text is limited. Moreover, newly established theories and material on the subject indicates towards one sided representation of MBQ which are the distorted form of historical events.