The story is set in the fictional Middle Eastern poor country of Khuruchabja. We see the event unfold through the eyes of a female correspondent of a news agency who has disguised herself as a man to roam freely in this strict country. Ten years later when the protagonist isContinue Reading
The Emir’s Clock in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fifth Annual Collection: A remarkable clock flashes a message of seemingly divine origin to a young Arab, charging him with the task of creating a new race of intelligent machines. [Synopsis from Fictionwise]
Two races live on a colonized world in a perpetual state of war. One of the races has a very traditional sort of stereotypical Islamic culture, the other is more western, thought not completely. In the end, they find out they are really tribes that once came from the sameContinue Reading
Published in Citizen Culture Magazine, Feb 2005. A futuristic look at a world where seminaries encourage multiculturalism and the quest for tolerance is taken a step too far. [Entry thanks to Pamela Taylor]
The story is set in a post singularity future. Sadeq is a Muslim character and is a prominent secondary character, an imam on a small ship in orbit around Jupiter and asked to adjudicate a very complicated dispute according to Islamic law and is later tempted in a virtual realityContinue Reading
Globalhead is a collection of stories by the famous Science Fiction writer Brice Sterling. Here are a few stories from the collection which have Islamic themes. The Compassionate, the Digital: Written as a speech given by a firebrand Islamic leader; their nation has developed an artificial intelligence named FIRDAUSI, whichContinue Reading
Edenborn prominently features a child named Haji of Muslim background who is also a Sufi. He struggles to find God’s will in a complicated future world. [Thanks to John W. for the synopsis and to Jennifer C. for the pointer] Here is an excerpt from a review at Fantasy andContinue Reading
Two emissaries from the galactic equivalent of the UN visit an asteroid mining colony inhabited by religiously conservative quasi-Muslims. The conflict in this book centers on a young girl from this society, women rights in Islam, and the potentially greater freedom she might have in the broader galactic society (RussContinue Reading
This is a famous hard sci-fi novel about the colonization and terraforming of Mars. It has many Arab, possibly Muslim characters. Sufis are also heavily featured and are portrayed in a very positive and sympathetic light. Here is an excerpt [page 9]: “Then he sat at the central table andContinue Reading
In Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s The Mote in God’s Eye and The Gripping Hand, the character of Horace Bury is a follower of Islam in both books. In the first, he is a very major secondary character, in the second he is one of the major characters. He alsoContinue Reading