Of the Tilism called Hoshruba and the Master of the Tilism, Emperor Afrasiyab.
Directed by Mahmood Farooqui
Produced by Anusha Rizvi
Dastango - Darain Shahidi, Mahmood Farooqui, Shadab Hasan, Meera Rizvi
One of the earliest accounts of the magical arts practiced in the Islamic world is found in the fourteenth-century work the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun, acknowledged as the first work on the philosophy of history and the social sciences. Ibn Khaldun devoted several pages to the definition of magic, from which we learn that its practice is viewed in the Islamic tradition as a science—not based in pagan rituals of sacrifice to gods and goddesses but requiring instead a command of a number of physical and occult sciences.
A sorcerer named Lachin ruled Hoshruba in its early years. Then one of his deputies—the cunning sorcerer Afrasiyab—deposed his master and usurped the throne. Afrasiyab became the Emperor of Hoshruba and the Master of the Tilism.
Afrasiyab and his sorceress wife Empress Heyrat now ruled over Hoshruba's three regions, named Zahir the Manifest, Batin the Hidden, and Zulmat the Dark. These regions were also tilisms and each contained countless dominions and smaller tilisms—filled with thousands of buildings, enclosures, gardens and palaces—governed by sorcerer princes and sorceress princesses.
Details
Based on: Dastan Amir Hamza, Hamzanameh
Duration: 1 hour
Suitable for: 12 years and above
Language: Urdu
Genre: Comic, Fantasy
