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{{Infobox book|release_date = September 18, 2018|publisher = [[Tor]]|image = ThroughDarkestEurope.jpeg|ImageSize = 150px|genre = [[Alternate history]]}}'''''Through Darkest Europe''''' is an [[alternate history]] novel by [[Harry Turtledove]], ([[Tor]], September 18, 2018). It was originally announced under the working title of ''God Wills It!''. The novel is set in the present in a world where [[Christianity (Through Darkest Europe)|Christian]] [[Europe (Through Darkest Europe)|Europe]] remained a backwater of religious fanaticism, but the [[Islam (Through Darkest Europe)|Muslim]] world of the [[Middle East]] and [[North Africa]] became the progressive and developed "First World". |
{{Infobox book|release_date = September 18, 2018|publisher = [[Tor]]|image = ThroughDarkestEurope.jpeg|ImageSize = 150px|genre = [[Alternate history]]}}'''''Through Darkest Europe''''' is an [[alternate history]] novel by [[Harry Turtledove]], ([[Tor]], September 18, 2018). It was originally announced under the working title of ''God Wills It!''. The novel is set in the present in a world where [[Christianity (Through Darkest Europe)|Christian]] [[Europe (Through Darkest Europe)|Europe]] remained a backwater of religious fanaticism, but the [[Islam (Through Darkest Europe)|Muslim]] world of the [[Middle East]] and [[North Africa]] became the progressive and developed "First World". |
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| + | The first stated [[Point of Divergence]] is that [[Al-Ghazali (Through Darkest Europe)|Al-Ghazali]], a great Islamic philosopher who flourished around 1100, adopted a pro-science worldview, rather than his allegedly anti-science stance in [[OTL]]. The second stated POD is that the 13th-century Italian philosopher [[Thomas Aquinas (Through Darkest Europe)|Thomas Aquinas]] took the opposite "reversal" of his OTL doctrine. |
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| ⚫ | The bulk of the novel is set in the [[Grand Duchy of Italy]], where two special investigators from the [[Maghrib (Through Darkest Europe)|Republican Sultanate of the Maghrib]] have been summoned to help root out and suppress the [[Aquinist]] terrorist branch, who seek to return Europe to a medieval way of thinking and remove all outside influence. |
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| ⚫ | The bulk of the novel is set in the [[Grand Duchy of Italy]], where two special investigators from the [[Maghrib (Through Darkest Europe)|Republican Sultanate of the Maghrib]] have been summoned to help root out and suppress the [[Aquinist]] terrorist branch, who seek to return Europe to a medieval way of thinking and remove all outside influence. Maghribi agent [[Khalid al-Zarzisi]] is the novel's sole POV. |
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| + | Turtledove has also had Christian Europe fall behind Islamic civilization in "[[Islands in the Sea]]" and ''[[In High Places]]'', all of which have very different PODs. |
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| + | "[[Occupation Duty]]" sees the birth of all modern Abrahamic religions nipped in the bud, with various strains of polytheism dominating the modern world. The story focuses on geographic analogs of [[Israel]] and [[Palestine]], whose OTL positions are similarly "reversed." |
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| Genre(s) | Alternate history |
| Publisher | Tor |
| Publication date | September 18, 2018 |
Through Darkest Europe is an alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove, (Tor, September 18, 2018). It was originally announced under the working title of God Wills It!. The novel is set in the present in a world where Christian Europe remained a backwater of religious fanaticism, but the Muslim world of the Middle East and North Africa became the progressive and developed "First World".
The first stated Point of Divergence is that Al-Ghazali, a great Islamic philosopher who flourished around 1100, adopted a pro-science worldview, rather than his allegedly anti-science stance in OTL. The second stated POD is that the 13th-century Italian philosopher Thomas Aquinas took the opposite "reversal" of his OTL doctrine.
The bulk of the novel is set in the Grand Duchy of Italy, where two special investigators from the Republican Sultanate of the Maghrib have been summoned to help root out and suppress the Aquinist terrorist branch, who seek to return Europe to a medieval way of thinking and remove all outside influence. Maghribi agent Khalid al-Zarzisi is the novel's sole POV.
Similar Turtledove works
Turtledove has also had Christian Europe fall behind Islamic civilization in "Islands in the Sea" and In High Places, all of which have very different PODs.
"Occupation Duty" sees the birth of all modern Abrahamic religions nipped in the bud, with various strains of polytheism dominating the modern world. The story focuses on geographic analogs of Israel and Palestine, whose OTL positions are similarly "reversed."
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