Islam Science Fiction And Extraterrestrial Life

The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed for a perceived lack of creativity imagination and futureoriented thought. However even the most authoritarian Muslimmajority countries have produced highly imaginative accounts on one of the frontiers of knowledge astrobiology or the study of life in the universe.This book argues that the Islamic tradition has been generally supportive of conceptions of extraterrestrial life and i