Constructing Pakistan - pg. 98

There are some obvious differences in the retrieval strategies of Hali and Naumani. While Hali, steeped in the loyalist discourse of his times, focused mainly on the social transformative history of Islam and its mastery of knowledge, Naumani's focus is more on the illustrious martial traditions of Islam. His heroes of the past are Muslim warriors who sacked empires, and changed the world, and as is evident from these lines, 'Received the throne and crown of Kisra/ and collected revenues from the Tartars.