Sultana’s Dream (Full Text)

  By Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad | May 22, 2013 - 4:45 pm | , ,
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Sultana’s Dream by Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein (1880 – 1932) (Sultana’s Dream was originally published in The Indian Ladies’ Magazine, Madras, 1905, in English. This edition is transcribed from Sultana’s dream; and Padmarag: two feminist utopias by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain; translated with an introduction by Barnita Bagchi. New Delhi (India) : Penguin, 2005.) Source: UPenn Library One evening I was lounging in an easy chair in my bedroom and thinking lazily of the condition of Indian … Continue reading →

Fire and Clay by Kaaronica Evans-Ware

  By Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad | May 13, 2013 - 1:15 am |
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Fire and Clay is a book by Kaaronica Evans-Ware who is a Muslim-American author. It is a science fiction book where the world of Jinns take center stage. Here is the description of the book from its Amazon page. Banished from her clan for being a Muslim, a 400 year-old jinn named Zamar is hiding from her past. But an ancient evil is about to surface, unearthing her secrets and carrying painful reminders of the … Continue reading →

Wiscon 37: Contemporary Fantasy and Science Fiction from the Muslim World

  By Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad | May 6, 2013 - 10:54 am |
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After the highly successful panel in 2012, we will be doing another panel related to Muslims and Science Fiction this year at WisCon 37 in Madison. See you folks there! A lot has happened since One Thousand and One Nights. Come and hear panelists discuss contemporary fantasy and science fiction from the Muslim world! We’ll talk about works by Muslim authors from different countries, both those available in English and those still awaiting translation. We … Continue reading →

Sword of Allah by Richard Elliott

  By Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad | March 18, 2013 - 10:55 am | ,
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This sounds like another story where the Arabs and the Muslims are the big bad guys. Here is the premise of the story form Google Books. CIA agent John Norris braves capture, torture, and death to stop fanatic Arab dictator Abu Ben Salamat who intends to unleash a deadly superweapon unless the world capitulates to his demands The Arab leader in case creates a superweapon which can create sunspots on the sun which in turn … Continue reading →

Quantum Hijra by Dawoud Kringle

  By Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad | March 12, 2013 - 2:44 pm | ,
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Quantum Hijra is a Science Fiction tale with sufi themes by Dawoud who is a Muslim musician, composer, poet, author and an overall inspiring figure. Quantum Hijra is his first novel and would be coming out next week (March 20, 2013). It is being released by Leilah Publications. Here is an except from the Novel’s official website: QUANTUM HIJRA is an epic science fiction tale that is one of the most unique ever told by … Continue reading →

The Religious War by Scott Adams

  By Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad | March 9, 2013 - 8:50 pm |
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The Religious War is a sequel to Scott Adams’ God’s Debris. Scott Adams is the well known creator of the excellent comic strop Dilbert. It is set in the near future where the smartest man in the world tries to stop a war between Christians and Muslims. Here are some details from Scott Adam’s blog about the book: The main plot element involved the idea that Islamic terrorists would regularly bomb targets in the United … Continue reading →

Star of Islam

  By Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad | March 5, 2013 - 10:19 pm |
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Star of Islam is an upcoming novel by T. Jackson King to be released in May. It has a somewhat strange premise i.e., the Shias take over large parts of the world within a decade. The prologue of the book given below gives the setting of the novel. It sounds a little too fantastical. From a graduate course seminar given by Saad Idnn Ibrahim, Sunni Lecturer and Fulbright Scholar at the University of California Los … Continue reading →

iOrientalism: Fooling around with Arab princesses

  By Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad | February 8, 2013 - 8:49 pm |
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(Cross Posted from Tabsir: Original article by Daniel Martin Varisco ) The late Edward Said lamented the biased representation of the “Oriental” in his influential Orientalism, published 35 years ago. Most of the scholarly and voyeuristic tomes he critiqued are rarely read these days, although his intellectual nemesis Bernard Lewis is well represented in your local Barnes and Noble bookstore (in part thanks to a desire for selling books rather than seriously vetting them by … Continue reading →

Female, Muslim, and mutant: Muslim women in comic books

  By Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad | February 7, 2013 - 12:39 am | ,
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Female, Muslim, and mutant: Muslim women in comic books By Jahanzeb Dar A convoy of jeeps packed with turban-clad and bearded Taliban militia roar through the rocky streets of a small Afghan town. The engines slowly die down as the militiamen hop off their vehicles and prepare to unleash havoc and raid homes. But something unusual mystifies them and halts their extremist fervor. An ominous silence fills the town, as if it were a strange … Continue reading →

A Mosque Among The Stars available for free!

  By Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad | January 4, 2013 - 2:08 pm | ,
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A Mosque Among The Stars was the first anthology that dealt with the subject of Muslim characters and/or Islamic themes and Science Fiction. It was edited by me (Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad) and the Canadian Muslim author Ahmad Khan. It came out in 2007. Now that it has been years since it was released in printed form, we have decided to release A Mosque Among The Stars to the public as a Creative Commons Licensed (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs) book. … Continue reading →