Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World
Autor Jörg Matthias Determannen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 mai 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780755650361
ISBN-10: 0755650360
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 11 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0755650360
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 11 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Examines a large number of historical actors, including scientists, writers and visual artists, and their production of ideas in different social and political contexts over time.
Notă biografică
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).
Cuprins
1. Introduction: Islam and Extraterrestrial Imaginations2. Missions and Mars: Scientific Journals and Popular Magazines3. Trips to the Moon: Cold War Cinema and Science Fiction4. Islamic UFO Religions: Popular Literature and Religious Scripture5. Building Nations and Worlds: Science Fiction as Genre and the Postcolonial Nation6. Muslim Futurisms: Technological Advances and Socio-Political ChangeAcknowledgementsBibliographyInterviewsPrimary sourcesSecondary sourcesIndex
Recenzii
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By delving into this lesser-known aspect of Muslim culture, one can appreciate the cultural diversity and creative expressions that exist within the Islamic world. and beyond.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By delving into this lesser-known aspect of Muslim culture, one can appreciate the cultural diversity and creative expressions that exist within the Islamic world. and beyond.