This is one of the best novels on alternative history involving Islam. In this alternative history the bubonic plague kills 99% of the population in Europe, leaving the Islamic world and China as contest over the control of the world with India caught in the Middle. The main characters areContinue Reading
Here is a synopsis from Fictionwise. The ambitious Sultan of Alpha Centauri can only claim the illustrious title of Caliph if he makes a ritual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. This journey completed, he will rule the entire population of the greater Islamic universe. But human knowledge hasContinue Reading
The history of Islam in the 20th century in this story is different from OTL. Here is a description from Fictionwise. For a thousand years the Great Awakening has spread the teachings of Islam to all of the far corners of the known universe. Without a Caliph at its head,Continue Reading
GURPS is a well known book and is actually a collection of short alternative history stories. Caliph by Hite, Kenneth, Craig Neumeier, and Michael Schiffer Published in GURPS Alternate Earths II In OTL the knowledge of paper making arrived in the Islamic world in 749 after the historic battle ofContinue Reading
In If the Moors in Spain had Won (1931) Philip Guedalla speculates a world where the Muslim Granada had not fallen in 1491. Ferdinand’s army is defeated at Lanjaron in 1491. The alternate history is the long and enlightened history of the kingdom of Granada from 1491 to the ParisContinue Reading
The story is set in the 21st century in an alternative Ottoman Empire. The Germans won WW I and hence there was never a need to dismantle the Ottoman Empire, which has survived for more than a century. The story is set in the city of El-Iskandria (Alexandria) in anContinue Reading
Effendi: The Second Arabesk is the sequel to Pasahazade. Ashraf Bey is still wanted by the American government, he may possibly be the son of the Emir of Tunis. Alexandrai begins to fall apart and his ex-finance’s father is accused of mass-murder. The United States, France and Germany still tryContinue Reading
Judeo-Islamic Messianic Alternative History: In Lisa’s Goldstein’s Split Light published in Travelers of Magic, the famous Jewish messianic Shabbetai Zevi does not convert to Islam and is imprisoned in Constantinople. Afterwards he sees visions of how the world might be impacted in the future due to his decision.
Edward Gibbon, the author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire wrote a famous passage on the Battle of Tours (732), what if the Muslims had won in that battle, which is sort of an alternative history. A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousandContinue Reading
Orson Scott Card’s Pastwatch: The Redepmtion of Christopher Columbus: This is a story about alternative history/ time travel which has a few Muslim characters. Here is a review from Publishers Weekly. Playing with the time stream isn’t new to science fiction, but Card (Ender’s Game), who’s won both a HugoContinue Reading