S.A. Chakraborty is the best selling author of The Daevabad Trilogy. The series began in 2017 with The City of Brass and was then followed up by The Kingdom of Copper and The Empire of Gold.

As an author, Chakraborty has been nominated for the Locus, World Fantasy, Crawford, and Astounding awards. S.A. is married and lives in New Jersey with her husband and daughter. She is a white convert to Islam and that conversion has had a significant impact on her writing. She spent time studying abroad in Cairo and lead to her exploring that side of Islam more deeply.

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Publication Order of Amina al-Sirafi Books

(as Shannon Chakraborty)

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Daevabad Trilogy Books

The City of Brass (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Kingdom of Copper (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Empire of Gold (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The River of Silver (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Library of Arabic Literature Books

Mission to the Volga (By: Tim Severin,Ahmad ibn Fadl?n,James E. Montgomery) (921)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī (By: Al-Hariri ,Michael Cooperson) (1122)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Leg Over Leg: Volume One (By: Humphrey Davies,Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq,أحمد فارس الشدياق) (1855)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Classical Arabic Literature (By: Geert Jan Van Gelder) (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Epistle on Legal Theory (By: Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Hundred and One Nights (By: Robert Irwin,Bruce Fudge) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Leg Over Leg: Volume Three (By: Humphrey Davies,Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq,أحمد فارس الشدياق) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Epistle of Forgiveness: Volume One (By: Geert Jan Van Gelder,Ab? al-?Al?? al-Ma?arr?,أبو العلاء المعري,Gregor Schoeler) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Leg over Leg: Volume Two (By: Humphrey Davies,Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Ḥanbal: Volume One (By: Ibn al-Jawzi) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Epistle of Forgiveness: Volume Two (By: Geert Jan Van Gelder,Ab? al-?Al?? al-Ma?arr?,أبو العلاء المعري,Gregor Schoeler) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Principles of Sufism (By: ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūniyyah,Th. Emil Homerin) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muḥammad (By: Mamar Ibn Rashid,Muhammad A.S. Abdel Haleem,Sean W. Anthony) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Leg over Leg: Volume Four (By: Humphrey Davies,Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Ḥanbal: Volume Two (By: Ibn al-Jawzi) (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Consorts of the Caliphs (By: Marina Warner,Ibn al-Sai,Shawkat M. Toorawa,Julia Bray) (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us: or, A Period of Time, Volume Two (By: Roger Allen,Muhammad al-Muwaylihi) (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sword of Ambition (By: ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded (By: Yusuf Al-Shirbini) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded: Volume One (By: Yusuf Al-Shirbini) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Treasury of Virtues (By: Rowan Williams) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Risible Rhymes (By: Humphrey Davies,Muhammad Ibn Mahfuz Al-Sanhuri) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Life of Ibn Hanbal (By: Ibn al-Jawzi,Garth Fowden,Michael Cooperson) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Accounts of China and India (By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Disagreements of the Jurists (By: Devin Stewart,John Sexton,al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd (By: Hmedan Al-Shwe'ir,Marcel Kurpershoek) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us: Or, A Period of Time (By: Roger Allen,Muhammad al-Muwaylihi) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One (By: Humphrey Davies,Muhammad al-Tunisi) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two (By: Humphrey Davies,Muhammad al-Tunisi) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Diwan 'Antarah ibn Shaddad (By: James E. Montgomery) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Arabian Romantic (By: Abd Allaah Ibn Subayyil) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
War Songs (By: Peter Cole,Richard Sieburth,James E. Montgomery,Antarah Ibn Shaddad) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Life and Times of Abū Tammām (By: Terence Cave,Abu Bakr Al-Suli) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stories of Piety and Prayer (By: Julia Bray,al-Muḥassin ibn ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Excellence of the Arabs (By: Jack Weatherford,Ibn Qutaybah,Sarah Bowen Savant,Peter Webb) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tajrid sayf al-himmah li-stikhraj ma fi dhimmat al-dhimmah (By: Luke Yarbrough) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume One (By: James E. Montgomery,Abu Hayyan Al-Tawhidi) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two (By: James E. Montgomery,Abu Hayyan Al-Tawhidi) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Light in the Heavens (By: Al-Qadi al-Qudaʿi,Tahera Qutbuddin,Paul Hinder) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Scents and Flavors: A Syrian Cookbook (By: Claudia Roden) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Impostures (By: Abdelfattah Kilito,Al-Hariri) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (By: Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni,Mario Kozah) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Book of Charlatans (With: Humphrey Davies,Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī,Manuela Dengler) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years (By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Book of Travels: Volume One (By: Ḥannā Diyāb,Yasmine Seale,Johannes Stephan,Elias Muhanna) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Book of Travels: Two-Volume Set (By: Ḥannā Diyāb,Yasmine Seale,Paulo Lemos Horta,Johannes Stephan,Elias Muhanna) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Discourses: Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature—Volume One (By: al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism (By: ʿAyn al-Quḍāt) (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition (By: al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir) (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kal?lah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice (By: Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ) (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

If You Like S.A. Chakraborty Books, You’ll Love…

The City of Brass is the first book in the Daevabad Trilogy. The story follows Nahri who has never believed in magic. She’s con woman who uses palm readings and healing as tricks in order to get by. The tricks help her to survive, but she knows they aren’t real. Until the day that Nahri accidentally summons Dara, a djinn warrior, who makes her reconsider everything that she believes. Dara tells Nahri of Daevabad, a legendary city beyond the ruins, that Nahri is bound to. Nahri heads to the city and her arrival nearly starts a war. In the city, Nahri strikes up a friendship with Alizayd, a prince who dreams of revolutionizing the city. That won’t be easy and the politics of the city can overpower even magic.

The series continues with The Kingdom of Copper that picks up after the events of the first book. This book sees Nahri needing to forge herself a new path and embrace her heritage, but as she does so she finds herself trapped in a gilded cage. The king has his eyes on her and she knows that one wrong step could potentially doom her tribe.

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