Zindeeq[1][2] is the fifth novel by Urdu novelist Rahman Abbas, the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (India's National Academy of Letters) for his fourth novel, Rohzin in 2018.
Rahman has received an international grant to study Nazism in Germany and find out how the politics in Pakistan and India will affect its minorities.
[10] The novel research grant was awarded by 'Crossing Borders' programme, jointly held by the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin as reported by LCB & TOI.
Maharashtra State Urdu Sahitya Academy Award for Best Novel [13] It is a dystopian novel [14] about the future of the subcontinent, challenges faced by minorities and about various aspects of the queer movement and alternative sexual freedom.
[20] Critic Dr Shahid Iqbal Kamran analyzed the novel and writes in his article that "Zindeeq begins with the most important day of Sanaullah’s life, when he passed the compulsory examination to become an officer in the army and ends with the phrase, "And the war has begun'.