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Category: Academic Literature

Ancient Black Astronauts and Extraterrestrial Jihads: Islamic Science Fiction as Urban Mythology

Ancient Black Astronauts and Extraterrestrial Jihads: Islamic Science Fiction as Urban Mythology

Yusuf Nuruddin has a fascinating articel on the intersection

9 Sep - by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad - 1 - In Academic Literature
Finding a Place for a Muslimah Heroine in the Post-9/11 Marvel Universe

Finding a Place for a Muslimah Heroine in the Post-9/11 Marvel Universe

For those interested in an academic look at the

3 May - by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad - 0 - In Academic Literature Comics
Dissertation on the Novels of Kassem Kassem

Dissertation on the Novels of Kassem Kassem

Generic Cues and Generic Features in Arabic Science Fiction:

22 Apr - by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad - 0 - In Academic Literature
Allah’s Automata: Artifacts of the Arab Islamic Renaissance (800–1200)

Allah’s Automata: Artifacts of the Arab Islamic Renaissance (800–1200)

  This could also be the title of a

11 Apr - by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad - 1 - In Academic Literature Other Media
Ian Campbell on Muhammad Aziz Lahbabi’s The Elixir of Life

Ian Campbell on Muhammad Aziz Lahbabi’s The Elixir of Life

Ian Campbell has an excellent review of Muhammad Aziz

25 Feb - by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad - 1 - In Academic Literature Arabic SF
Writing Muslim American Fantasy: Saladin Ahmed

Writing Muslim American Fantasy: Saladin Ahmed

Here is a video of  Saladin Ahmed giving a

23 Mar - by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad - 0 - In Academic Literature English SF
Frankenstein in Baghdad

Frankenstein in Baghdad

The Iraqi Novelist Ahmad Saadawi was first short listed

20 Feb - by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad - 0 - In Academic Literature Arabic SF
Spiritis and Apparitions in the Muslim Imagination

Spiritis and Apparitions in the Muslim Imagination

Image Source: a Jinn from Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī‘s “Marvels of Things

25 Oct - by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad - 0 - In Academic Literature

Islam and Science Fiction at the Tottenham Palestine Literature Festival!

Islam and Science Fiction was in London recently, our

13 Oct - by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad - 1 - In Academic Literature
Sci-Fi with Muslim Characters in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture

Sci-Fi with Muslim Characters in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture

The current issue (Volume 26, Number 1, Spring 2014)

25 Apr - by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad - 0 - In Academic Literature English SF Islam in SF Literature

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