Hoshruba: The Land And The Tilism

In late nineteenth century Lucknow two rival story-tellers Syed Muhammad Husain Jah and Ahmed Husain Qamar wrote a fantasy in the Urdu language whose equal had not been heard before and which has never been rivalled since. It was called Tilism-e Hoshruba. The writers claimed that the tale had been passed down to them from story-tellers going back centuries: it was a part of the beloved oral epic The Adventures of Amir Hamza which had come to the Indian subcontinent via Persia and had gained in p...See More