You might like Steven Barnes's alternate history of how the Egyptians and Muslim discovered and settled the New World. He got some hinges wrong, but he sure as heck got a lot right, and the books are exciting to read. He's also one of the very few sf/f male writers who can write genuinely sexy sex scenes. He's never finished the trilogy, but the first two volumes are still available, I believe:
Lion's Blood (2002) and Zulu Heart (2003. I quote:
" ... alternate world where a Muslim Africa became the dominant world power and Europe remained primitive .... the story of a young African nobleman, Kai ibn Jallaleddin ibn Rashid al Kushi, and his former slave, the Irishman Aidan O'Dere. Throughout the novel, both the Gregorian calendar and the Islamic Hijri calendar are used."
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Date: 2011-09-01 09:47 pm (UTC)Lion's Blood (2002) and Zulu Heart (2003. I quote:
" ... alternate world where a Muslim Africa became the dominant world power and Europe remained primitive .... the story of a young African nobleman, Kai ibn Jallaleddin ibn Rashid al Kushi, and his former slave, the Irishman Aidan O'Dere. Throughout the novel, both the Gregorian calendar and the Islamic Hijri calendar are used."
Love, C.