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This is a rare excursion into a little explored region of Islamic culture... Most readers of the West will be riveted by the imaginative and futuristic explorations of possible extra-terrestrial life in the universe by Muslim writers and filmmakers. * AramcoWorld * This is a rare excursion into a little explored region of Islamic culture... Most readers of the West will be riveted by the imaginative and futuristic explorations of possible extra-terrestrial life in the universe by Muslim writers and filmmakers. * AramcoWorld * Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life provides a kaleidoscopic view of the rich variety of ways in which Muslims have imagined, sought, and encountered life beyond our planet. -- Alireza Doostdar, Assistant Professor, Divinity School and the College, The University of Chicago Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life provides a kaleidoscopic view of the rich variety of ways in which Muslims have imagined, sought, and encountered life beyond our planet. -- Alireza Doostdar, Assistant Professor, Divinity School and the College, The University of Chicago This original and much-needed book fills a huge gap in the subject of astrobiology and society. Never before have the relations between astrobiology and Muslim science, culture, and politics been rendered in such vivid detail and with such solid scholarship. A must read for historians, theologians, and the general public interested in both Muslim culture and alien life. -- Steven J. Dick, Former NASA Chief Historian, Former Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology This original and much-needed book fills a huge gap in the subject of astrobiology and society. Never before have the relations between astrobiology and Muslim science, culture, and politics been rendered in such vivid detail and with such solid scholarship. A must read for historians, theologians, and the general public interested in both Muslim culture and alien life. -- Steven J. Dick, Former NASA Chief Historian, Former Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology Joerg Determann presents readers with an engaging, in-depth and scholarly investigation into the ways in which Islamic writers, over the centuries, have written, thought about and engaged with the concept of extraterrestrial life. Determann breaks much new ground and makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of the relationship between out-of-this-world ideas and religion, in particular Islam. -- David Weintraub, Professor of Astronomy and Director of Program in Communication of Science & Technology, Vanderbilt University Joerg Determann presents readers with an engaging, in-depth and scholarly investigation into the ways in which Islamic writers, over the centuries, have written, thought about and engaged with the concept of extraterrestrial life. Determann breaks much new ground and makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of the relationship between out-of-this-world ideas and religion, in particular Islam. -- David Weintraub, Professor of Astronomy and Director of Program in Communication of Science & Technology, Vanderbilt University

Islam and Extraterrestrial Life provides a kaleidoscopic view of the rich variety of ways in which Muslims have imagined, sought, and encountered life beyond our planet. This original and much-needed book fills a huge gap in the subject of astrobiology and society. Never before have the relations between astrobiology and Muslim science, culture, and politics been rendered in such vivid detail and with such solid scholarship. A must read for historians, theologians, and the general public interested in both Muslim culture and alien life.

This is a rare excursion into a little explored region of Islamic culture… Most readers of the West will be riveted by the imaginative and futuristic explorations of possible extra-terrestrial life in the universe by Muslim writers and filmmakers. * AramcoWorld * Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life provides a kaleidoscopic view of the rich variety of ways in which Muslims have imagined, sought, and encountered life beyond our planet. -- Alireza Doostdar, Assistant Professor, Divinity School and the College, The University of Chicago This original and much-needed book fills a huge gap in the subject of astrobiology and society. Never before have the relations between astrobiology and Muslim science, culture, and politics been rendered in such vivid detail and with such solid scholarship. A must read for historians, theologians, and the general public interested in both Muslim culture and alien life. -- Steven J. Dick, Former NASA Chief Historian, Former Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology Determann’s book, thus, through meticulous research, presents a remarkable history of dialogue and cross-pollination between nations and cultures in the fields of science and science fiction, and points out how, in spite of Islamic opposition to science fiction in many places and its complex relationship with the state, SF has not only thrived, but it continues to be reimagined by Muslim authors from across the world. -- Mayurika Chakravorty * SFRA Review * Jörg Determann presents readers with an engaging, in-depth and scholarly investigation into the ways in which Islamic writers, over the centuries, have written, thought about and engaged with the concept of extraterrestrial life. Determann breaks much new ground and makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of the relationship between out-of-this-world ideas and religion, in particular Islam. -- David Weintraub, Professor of Astronomy and Director of Program in Communication of Science & Technology, Vanderbilt University Jörg Matthias Determann ... has given us a well-researched tour, remarkably broad in scope, of different manifestations of sf and extraterrestrial life in the Muslim world writ large, from Morocco all the way to Indonesia. * Science Fiction Studies *

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Jörg Matthias Determann is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar. He is the author of three books published by I.B.Tauris: Space Science and the Arab World (2018), Researching Biology and the Evolution of the Gulf States (2015) and Historiography in Saudi Arabia (2014).

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