The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

core novel 2023 The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

Record

First published	2023
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.24 (91,034 ratings, collected 2026-09-14)
First-edition ISBN	9780062963505
Internal chronology	1

Synopsis

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi opens with its title character living in quiet retirement on the Indian Ocean coast in the twelfth century, having left behind her old life as a notorious pirate captain in order to raise her young daughter, Marjana, away from danger. That peace is broken when an elderly noblewoman named Salima seeks her out with an offer she cannot refuse: find and rescue her missing granddaughter, Dunya, who disappeared after falling in with a Frankish occultist. To take the job, Amina must reassemble her old crew, including the poisoner Dalila, first mate Tinbu and navigator Majed, and ready her ship, the Marawati, for one more voyage. Their search for Dunya soon proves stranger and more dangerous than expected, tangled up with legends of a powerful relic and forces that reach well beyond the ordinary criminal underworld Amina used to know.

Where it sits

• Universe: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
• Series: Amina al-Sirafi core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
• Author: S.A. Chakraborty

Notes

• From the series record (Amina al-Sirafi): Planned trilogy; third volume not yet published.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.

• Reading order, within the series Amina al-Sirafi: position 1 of 2: next The Tapestry of Fate (2025)

Sources

• Author's official bibliography page (S.A. Chakraborty)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Amina_al-Sirafi

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