A revolutionary new collection of genre-bending futuristic stories from award-winning and visionary Muslim writers.

Imagine a panoply of futuristic worlds, all of them steeped in the Muslim values of peace, justice, and care; worlds where Muslims finally belong and thrive, and in doing so, create a better future for all people. And yet, even in these aspirational worlds, there is struggle. We struggle with love and with loss, and in doing so, we reveal what it means to be human, and the emotional bonds and fractures that unite us all.

This anthology is a glimpse into an array of possible futures, filled with magic and mystery, advanced science and ancient technologies; a portal to a multiverse of better worlds. Join us on the other side.

Bismillah.

With stories by

Karim Ahmad

Maytha Alhassen

Day Al-Mohamed

Ryah Aqel

Fatimah Asghar

Iasmin Omar Ata

Safia Elhillo

Randa Jarrar

Sami Khan

Angelica Lindsey-Ali

Fawzia Mirza

Mike Mosallam

Nijla Baseema Mu'min

Hussein Rashid

Jumai Yusuf

Iman Zawahry

Karim Ahmad is a writer, producer, and founder of the Utopia Studio, which recently EP'ed The Voice of Hind Rajab, directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, currently nominated for an Oscar. Karim wrote the speculative fiction graphic novel, Divide, co-created the Muslim Futures anthology, and is in production on Longfang, an animated YA punk rock anti-imperialist supernatural fantasy, based on his graphic novel. Karim was Creator and Showrunner of the science fiction series, Futurestates, an Open Society Foundations Soros Equality Fellow, and his pilot script, Nura, was selected for the Black List's 2024 Muslim List. He was previously an executive at the Sundance Institute and ITVS.

Ryah Aqel is a filmmaker, writer, and cultural producer interested in the relationship between indigenous communities, identity and land, in Palestine and beyond. Previously, she was an Associate Producer at Multitude Films and supported the productions of LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POWER, Yance Ford's POWER, and Sesame Workshop's THROUGH OUR EYES series. She was a Sundance Institute Knight Foundation fellow and a Sundance Institute Women in Film Finance and Strategy Intensive Fellow. She is a co-producer of the Muslim Futures Project as a grantee of Race Forward's Chrysalis Lab. Her writing has been featured in Strange Horizons, In These Times, The Nation, and more.

Randa Jarrar is the author of the memoir Love Is An Ex-Country, the novel A Map of Home, the collection of stories Him, Me, Muhammad Ali. She is a filmmaker and actor who has appeared in independent films and on the A24 TV shows Ramy and #1 Happy Family USA. She is a recipient of a Creative Capital Award and an American Book Award, as well as awards and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, PEN, and others. She lives in Los Angeles.

Fatimah Asghar is an artist who spans across different genres and themes. They have been featured in various outlets such as TIME, NPR, Teen Vogue and the Forbes 30 Under 30 List. Their first book of poems If They Come For Us explored themes of orphaning, family, the violence of the 1947 Partition of South Asia, the legacy of colonization, borders, shifting identity, and violence. Their debut novel, When We Were Sisters, from One World/ Random House, was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Carol Shield's Prize. Along with Safia Elhillo they co-edited an anthology for Muslim people who are also women, trans, gender non-conforming, and/ or queer, Halal If You Hear Me, which was built around the radical idea that there are as many ways of being Muslim as there are Muslim people in the world. They are the writer and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated Brown Girls, a web series that highlights friendship among women of color that was in a development deal with HBO, and wrote and directed Got Game, a short film that follows a queer South Asian Muslim woman trying to navigate a kink party after being single, and wrote, directed and starred in Retrieval, a lyrical short film that follows the process of a soul retrieval in the aftermath of sexual assault. They are also a writer and co-producer on the Emmy-nominated Ms. Marvel on Disney +, and wrote Episode 5, Time and Again.

Sudanese by way of D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of Girls That Never Die, The January Children, Home Is Not a Country, and Bright Red Fruit, and co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, the California Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, she is also the recipient of a Cave Canem Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation. Her work has appeared in POETRY magazine, The Atlantic, and The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day series, among others.

"In this bountiful gift of a book are sixteen stories revealing the dazzling tapestry of Muslim America, giving us glimpses of a brighter shared future for all of us." — Jeff Chang, "Can't Stop Won't Stop" and "Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America"