We are starting a new regular feature on Islam and Sci-Fi: Alternate History Tuesdays. Every other Wednesday we will be posting an alternate history scenario, piece of art, story etc. This is inaugural post. Please let us know what you think about this series so that we can evolve this feature overContinue Reading
Yaqteenya is an alternative history novel by Yasir Bahjatt, a Saudi citizen who has been instrumental in trying to get the genre of Science Fiction off the ground in Saudi Arabia. The novel has both Science Fiction and Fantasy elements. It imagines a group of Spanish Muslims who venture intoContinue Reading
Ken Kalfus is an American author an journalist who has won numerous prestigious awards and also been nominated for many others. He was also the Guggenheim Fellow in 2009. He has written for Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times. A film adaptation of hisContinue Reading
Lets start the first day of Pakistani Science Fiction with alternate history. There are movies which are bizarre and then there are movies which lie at the border of being bizarre and being socially conscious. The film was released in 1986 and starred leading actors of Pakistani Cinema at theContinue Reading
Other Time Lines is a website has a lot of interesting alternative histories and Islam features in many of these alternative timelines. Here are some examples. Timeline 218 A time line where the Russians covert to Islam and the Ottomans earlier than in OTL. Timeline 803 What if the TurksContinue 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
Alternate History is NOT one of those genres where alternate theories about history are entertained or discussed. It might be better to describe it as speculative history or rather an intellectual exercise in the ‘what ifs’ of history. This section contains alternative history stories and novels where the setting isContinue Reading