Image: Yakoub Islam Background: Yakoub Islam in a British Muslim writer who also runs the Tasneem Project and Steampunk Islam project. He also created the Muslim Aracrchist Charter. He is working on the first Muslim Steampunk novel which is set in the 11-12th centuries. Yakoub defines the project as follows: “MuslimContinue Reading
(Image: Ahmed A. Khan) Background: Ahmed A. Khan is a Canadian Muslim Science Fiction author originally hailing from India. He has published more than 40 short stories, published in Interzone, HP Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror etc and he has a number of anthologies including the first anthology on Islam and ScienceContinue Reading
Image: Pamela Taylor (Image Source: BBC) Background: This is the second interview in the series of interviews with Muslim authors. This week we will be interviewing Pamela K. Taylor. Pamela Taylor is a Muslim American poet and a writer. She has published a number of Science short stories in various collectionsContinue Reading
Image: Achmed Adolf Wolfgang Khammas Backgound: This is the first interview in a series of interviews with Muslim Science Fiction authors and people who have written about Sciene Fiction with Islamic themes. Achmed Adolf Wolfgang Khammas has written on the subject of the lack of Science Fiction in Arabic LiteratureContinue Reading
Islam and Science Fiction website would like to welcome a new contributor to the website, Rebecca Hankins. She is an Associate Professor as well as a librarian at the Texas A&M University. She has written an extensive article on the subject of Muslims and Islam in Science Fiction. Her interested include African Diaspora, WomenContinue Reading
A Mosque Amongst The Stars, an anthology that I was co-editing with Ahmed A. Khan has been released. More information on the book can be found on the book webpage here. The table of contents is available here and contributing author bios can be read at this webpage. Currently theContinue Reading
Last week when I checked the website after a couple of weeks, to my surprise and horror the website had been hacked. The Islam and Science Fiction website was hacked by some hacker named PalEstiniaN_CraCkeR. It was a senseless act and I have no idea why the website was hackedContinue Reading