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Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life - The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World (Hardcover)
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Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life - The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World (Hardcover)
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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 future-oriented thought. However,
even the most authoritarian Muslim-majority 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 extra-terrestrial life, and in this engaging
account, Joerg Matthias Determann provides a survey of Arabic,
Bengali, Malay, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu texts and films, to show
how scientists and artists in and from Muslim-majority countries
have been at the forefront of the exciting search. Determann takes
us to little-known dimensions of Muslim culture and religion, such
as wildly popular adaptations of Star Wars and mysterious movements
centred on UFOs. Repression is shown to have helped science fiction
more than hurt it, with censorship encouraging authors to disguise
criticism of contemporary politics by setting plots in future times
and on distant planets. The book will be insightful for anyone
looking to explore the science, culture and politics of the Muslim
world and asks what the discovery of extra-terrestrial life would
mean for one of the greatest faiths.
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