Wow! this list is the best Ramadan gift so far this year...they only forgot Heinlein's "Stranger In a Strange Land" where one of the protagonist's main defenders is Dr. Mahmoud, aka "Stinky Mahmoud".
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That actually made my list of the four worst books I read last year. I read it because I like Catherine Asaro. I thought it was mildly interesting in the bigger picture of her work - you can see her working out the relationship patterns she writes - but the book itself was not so good. I couldn't stand it that the main character doesn't get it (whatever it may be at the moment), but she can identify machine guns with no past history that explains why.
(Of course, no one said this was a list of good Islam in sci fi books.)
And Lyda Morehouse's series starting with Archangel Protocol. They not only represent all three Abrahamic religions, but religion is definitely key to the books.
If the list counts fantasy as Sci Fi, then I'm pretty sure that Stephen Donaldson has some short stories set in "Oriental" worlds. And there's a Sandman volume which is set in Persia.
Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Pashazade books are set in a world where the Ottoman Empire never collapsed. Although I don't think the main character is particularly religious, Islam is obviously the default cultural background in the series, which is set in North Africa.
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this list is the best Ramadan gift so far this year...they only forgot Heinlein's "Stranger In a Strange Land" where one of the protagonist's main defenders is Dr. Mahmoud, aka "Stinky Mahmoud".
keep batting them eyelashes missy, I can feel the cilia-based breeze from queens
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I would add The Veiled Web by Catherine Asaro to the list.
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(Of course, no one said this was a list of good Islam in sci fi books.)
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And there's a Sandman volume which is set in Persia.
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