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* AuthorAvatar - The Convert has many similarities to the author, a female convert to Islam [[spoiler:who becomes pregnant during the story, which was written while the author was pregnant]].
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* [[spoiler:FirstGirlWins]][[spoiler:FirstGirlWins]]: Alif ends up with [[spoiler: Dina]].
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* OurGeniesAreDifferent: The Jinn are nonhumans who can change forms at will. They have WiFi. There is one 'marid' who states that she was imprisoned by that thief Aladdin. [[spoiler:She is imprisoned by The Hand in a bottle of Mecca Cola. New Quarter nearly asks her for wishes but Dina makes him let her go.]]
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* OurGeniesAreDifferent: The Jinn are nonhumans who can change forms at will. They have WiFi.[=WiFi=]. There is one 'marid' who states that she was imprisoned by that thief Aladdin. [[spoiler:She is imprisoned by The Hand in a bottle of Mecca Cola. New Quarter nearly asks her for wishes but Dina makes him let her go.]]
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* NotSoDifferent: [[BigBad The Hand]] gives Alif one of these while the latter [[spoiler: is being held in a HellholePrison]]; although he and Alif are on opposite sides, he argues that both of them are motivated by the rush of what they do far more than any ideology.
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: [[BigBad The Hand]] gives Alif one of these while the latter [[spoiler: is being held in a HellholePrison]]; although he and Alif are on opposite sides, he argues that both of them are motivated by the rush of what they do far more than any ideology.
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* UsefulNotes/IslamicDress: Dina shocks her family and the community by choosing to veil like the Arab upper caste.
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''Alif the Unseen'' is a 2012 novel by [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 G. Willow Wilson]] about a young man who lives in a {{Qurac}}-style state, complete with extensive Internet censorship. Alif (his online handle) makes a living as a 'grey hat', providing ways around the repressive state security system. He also is in love with an aristocratic Arab woman, and this leads him into an adventure complete with mysterious books, [[OurGeniesAreDifferent jinn]] and a computer code that could remake the world.
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''Alif the Unseen'' is a 2012 novel by [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 G. Willow Wilson]] Creator/GWillowWilson about a young man who lives in a {{Qurac}}-style state, complete with extensive Internet censorship. Alif (his online handle) makes a living as a 'grey hat', providing ways around the repressive state security system. He also is in love with an aristocratic Arab woman, and this leads him into an adventure complete with mysterious books, [[OurGeniesAreDifferent jinn]] and a computer code that could remake the world.
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''Alif the Unseen'' is a 2012 novel by G. Willow Wilson about a young man who lives in a {{Qurac}}-style state, complete with extensive Internet censorship. Alif (his online handle) makes a living as a 'grey hat', providing ways around the repressive state security system. He also is in love with an aristocratic Arab woman, and this leads him into an adventure complete with mysterious books, [[OurGeniesAreDifferent jinn]] and a computer code that could remake the world.
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''Alif the Unseen'' is a 2012 novel by [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 G. Willow Wilson Wilson]] about a young man who lives in a {{Qurac}}-style state, complete with extensive Internet censorship. Alif (his online handle) makes a living as a 'grey hat', providing ways around the repressive state security system. He also is in love with an aristocratic Arab woman, and this leads him into an adventure complete with mysterious books, [[OurGeniesAreDifferent jinn]] and a computer code that could remake the world.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: The programs based upon The Alf Yeom, have an unexpected effects.
* ArabianNights: The Alf Yeom is an inversion of the Arabian Nights- A Thousand and One Days instead. The actual ArabianNights is used as a decoy.
* ArabianNights: The Alf Yeom is an inversion of the Arabian Nights- A Thousand and One Days instead. The actual ArabianNights is used as a decoy.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: The programs based upon The Alf Yeom, ''Alf Yeom'' have an unexpected effects.
* ArabianNights: TheAlf Yeom ''Alf Yeom'' is an inversion of the Arabian Nights- Nights: A Thousand and One Days instead. The actual ArabianNights is used as a decoy.
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* HollywoodHacking: Alif seems to be able to hack and program intuitively, without really knowing how his own code works. This allows him to suddenly revolutionize computing after a single burst of inspiration, writing programs that understand metaphors and layers of meaning instead of binary ones and zeroes.
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* HollywoodHacking: Alif seems to be able to hack and program intuitively, without really knowing how his own code works. This allows him to suddenly revolutionize computing after a single burst of inspiration, writing programs that understand metaphors and layers of meaning instead of binary ones and zeroes. Justified in that [[MagicPoweredPseudoscience the inspiration comes from the ''Alf Yeom'']], not earthly/human sources.
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* TomeOfEldritchLore - The Alf Yeom can be this. [[spoiler: It apparently shifts due to whoever reads it.]]
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* TomeOfEldritchLore - The Alf Yeom ''Alf Yeom'' can be this. [[spoiler: It apparently shifts due to whoever reads it.]]
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* GirlNextDoor: Not only does Dina fit all the attributes of this trope (even if she has spunk as well), she is literally the girl next door to protagonist Alif.
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* GoodShepherd: Sheika Sheikh Bilal
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* GoodShepherd: Sheika Bilal is an Islamic version.Bilal
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* TheAlcatraz- The only way out of HellHolePrison is through a burning dangerous desert.
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* TheAlcatraz- TheAlcatraz - The only way out of HellHolePrison is through a burning dangerous desert.
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* BreakingSpeech: The Hand to Alif.
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* BlandNameProduct - [[WorldOfWarcraft World of Battle Craft]].
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* BlandNameProduct - [[WorldOfWarcraft [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft World of Battle Craft]].Craft]].
* BreakThemByTalking: The Hand does this to Alif.
* BreakThemByTalking: The Hand does this to Alif.
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* DefectorFromDecadence -[[spoiler:New Quarter 01]] who is a prince, but hacks to fight the regime.
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* DefectorFromDecadence -[[spoiler:New - [[spoiler:New Quarter 01]] who is a prince, but hacks to fight the regime.
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* EmbarrassingFirstName - Alif refuses to be called by his first name for much of the book, since he says it's too common. [[spoiler: His name is Mohammed]]
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* EmbarrassingFirstName - Alif refuses to be called by his first name for much of the book, since he says it's too common. [[spoiler: His name is Mohammed]]Mohammed.]]
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* ForcedIntoEvil - [[spoiler: Intisar is somewhere between this and Face Heel Turn]]
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* ForcedIntoEvil - [[spoiler: Intisar is somewhere between this and Face Heel Turn]]FaceHeelTurn.]]
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* OurGeniesAreDifferent: The Jinn are nonhumans who can change forms at will. They have WiFi. There is one 'marid' who states that she was imprisioned by that thief Aladdin.. [[spoiler:She is imprisoned by The Hand in a bottle of Mecca Cola. New Quarter nearly asks her for wishes but Dina makes him let her go]]
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* OurGeniesAreDifferent: The Jinn are nonhumans who can change forms at will. They have WiFi. There is one 'marid' who states that she was imprisioned imprisoned by that thief Aladdin..Aladdin. [[spoiler:She is imprisoned by The Hand in a bottle of Mecca Cola. New Quarter nearly asks her for wishes but Dina makes him let her go]]go.]]
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized - [[spoiler:After the grid is taken down by Alif's code, revolutionaries gather in the street, and a prince is hung. Alif believes it's New Quarter and chews them out, but it's really the body of the Hand.]] The crowds are composed of everyone from Islamists to Communists, all groups Alif helped with his hacking.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized - [[spoiler:After the grid is taken down by Alif's code, revolutionaries gather in the street, and a prince is hung. Alif believes it's New Quarter and chews them out, but it's really the body of the Hand.]] The crowds are composed of everyone from Islamists to Communists, all groups Alif helped with his hacking.
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* ShadesOfConflict - Alif helps people hide from StateSec with his hacks whether they are jihadists or just porn lovers, the jinn have a code of honor, but mostly are out for themselves (although they [[TheCavalry save the day]] for our heroes several times) and the Hand has people locked in [[HellHolePrison prison]] for hacking in which prisoners are starved, tortured, and in some instances, raped. [[spoiler: both Alif and the Hand end up breaking half the computer systems in the city, with various consequences from the internet going down to riots, looting and hangings]].
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* ShadesOfConflict - Alif helps people hide from StateSec with his hacks whether they are jihadists or just porn lovers, the jinn have a code of honor, but mostly are out for themselves (although they [[TheCavalry save the day]] for our heroes several times) and the Hand has people locked in [[HellHolePrison [[HellholePrison prison]] for hacking in which prisoners are starved, tortured, and tortured and, in some instances, raped. [[spoiler: both Both Alif and the Hand end up breaking half the computer systems in the city, with various consequences from the internet going down to riots, looting and hangings]].hangings.]]
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* TomeOfEldritchLore - The Alf Yeom can be this. [[spoiler: it apparently shifts due to whoever reads it]]
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized - [[spoiler:After the grid is taken down by Alif's code, revolutionaries gather in the street, and a prince is hung. Alif believes it's New Quarter and chews them out, but it's really the body of the Hand]]. The crowds are composed of everyone from Islamists to Communists, all groups Alif helped with his hacking.
* UptownGirl: Alif, a poor man, is in love with an aristocratic woman from the other part of town. They met online, but in real life, their love is mutual. [[spoiler: In the end [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Dina]] gets Alif]].
* VillainousBreakdown: The Hand after [[spoiler: the royal family disowns him in a (failed) attempt to appease the uprising.]]
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized - [[spoiler:After the grid is taken down by Alif's code, revolutionaries gather in the street, and a prince is hung. Alif believes it's New Quarter and chews them out, but it's really the body of the Hand]]. The crowds are composed of everyone from Islamists to Communists, all groups Alif helped with his hacking.
* UptownGirl: Alif, a poor man, is in love with an aristocratic woman from the other part of town. They met online, but in real life, their love is mutual. [[spoiler: In the end [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Dina]] gets Alif]].
* VillainousBreakdown: The Hand after [[spoiler: the royal family disowns him in a (failed) attempt to appease the uprising.]]
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* TomeOfEldritchLore - The Alf Yeom can be this. [[spoiler: it It apparently shifts due to whoever reads it]]
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized - [[spoiler:After the grid is taken down by Alif's code, revolutionaries gather in the street, and a prince is hung. Alif believes it's New Quarter and chews them out, but it's really the body of the Hand]]. The crowds are composed of everyone from Islamists to Communists, all groups Alif helped with his hacking.
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* UptownGirl: Alif, a poor man, is in love with an aristocratic woman from the other part of town. They met online, but in real life, their love is mutual. [[spoiler: In the end[[VictoriousChildhoodFriend [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Dina]] gets Alif]].
* VillainousBreakdown: The Hand after [[spoiler: the royal family disowns him in a (failed) attempt to appease theuprising.]]uprising]].
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized - [[spoiler:After the grid is taken down by Alif's code, revolutionaries gather in the street, and a prince is hung. Alif believes it's New Quarter and chews them out, but it's really the body of the Hand]]. The crowds are composed of everyone from Islamists to Communists, all groups Alif helped with his hacking.
* UptownGirl: Alif, a poor man, is in love with an aristocratic woman from the other part of town. They met online, but in real life, their love is mutual. [[spoiler: In the end
* VillainousBreakdown: The Hand after [[spoiler: the royal family disowns him in a (failed) attempt to appease the
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* ShoutOut: [[Film/ANewHope "These are not the banu adam you are looking for."]]
** At least two to Creator/NeilGaiman: a short dream sequence taken right out of AmericanGods, and game of wits from the first arc of ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.
** The entrance to the jinn's alley is hidden the same way as the entrance to the {{Labyrinth}}.
** Or it could be Diagon Alley from the {{Harry Potter}} series.
** 'Son of Adam' is from ''Literature/{{The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe}}''
** At least two to Creator/NeilGaiman: a short dream sequence taken right out of AmericanGods, and game of wits from the first arc of ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.
** The entrance to the jinn's alley is hidden the same way as the entrance to the {{Labyrinth}}.
** Or it could be Diagon Alley from the {{Harry Potter}} series.
** 'Son of Adam' is from ''Literature/{{The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe}}''
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** [[Film/ANewHope "These are not the banu adam you are looking for."]]
** At least two to Creator/NeilGaiman: a short dream sequence taken right out ofAmericanGods, ''Literature/AmericanGods'', and game of wits from the first arc of ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.
** The entrance to the jinn's alley is hidden the same way as the entrance to the{{Labyrinth}}.
Film/{{Labyrinth}}.
** Or it could be Diagon Alley from the{{Harry Potter}} Franchise/HarryPotter series.
** 'Son of Adam' is from''Literature/{{The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe}}''''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''
** [[Film/ANewHope "These are not the banu adam you are looking for."]]
** At least two to Creator/NeilGaiman: a short dream sequence taken right out of
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** 'Son of Adam' is from {{The ''Literature/{{The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe}}Wardrobe}}''
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Vikram is not an actual vampire and the convert is not really interested in him till the end anyway. Way too much of a stretch.
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** At least two to NeilGaiman: a short dream sequence taken right out of AmericanGods, and game of wits from the first arc of {{Sandman}}.
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** At least two toNeilGaiman: Creator/NeilGaiman: a short dream sequence taken right out of AmericanGods, and game of wits from the first arc of {{Sandman}}.''ComicBook/TheSandman''.
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''Alif the Unseen'' is a 2012 novel by G. Willow Wilson about a young man who lives in a {{Qurac}}-style state, complete with extensive Internet censorship. Alif (his online handle) makes a living as a 'grey hat', providing ways around the repressive state security system. He also is in love with an aristocratic Arab woman, and this leads him into an adventure complete with mysterious books, [[OurGeniesAreDifferent jinn]] and a computer code that could remake the world.
This work has examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: The programs based upon The Alf Yeom, have an unexpected effects.
* ArabianNights: The Alf Yeom is an inversion of the Arabian Nights- A Thousand and One Days instead. The actual ArabianNights is used as a decoy.
* AnotherDimension - The land of the Jinn
* TheAlcatraz- The only way out of HellHolePrison is through a burning dangerous desert.
* AuthorAvatar - The Convert has many similarities to the author, a female convert to Islam [[spoiler:who becomes pregnant during the story, which was written while the author was pregnant]].
* BreakingSpeech: The Hand to Alif.
* BettyAndVeronica- Dina and Intisar, respectively.
* BlandNameProduct - [[WorldOfWarcraft World of Battle Craft]].
* {{Catgirl}}
* CoolOldGuy: Sheikh Bilal
* DefectorFromDecadence -[[spoiler:New Quarter 01]] who is a prince, but hacks to fight the regime.
* TheDreaded: Vikram the Vampire among street thugs, The Hand among hackers.
* DuelingHackers: Alif is struggling to keep the Hand of God, the state censorship network, out of his system and those of his customers. [[spoiler:This struggle eventually spills out into RealLife with the requisite murder attempts.]]
* EmbarrassingFirstName - Alif refuses to be called by his first name for much of the book, since he says it's too common. [[spoiler: His name is Mohammed]]
* FamedInStory: Alif, at least among hackers. Also The Hand.
* ForcedIntoEvil - [[spoiler: Intisar is somewhere between this and Face Heel Turn]]
* GenieInABottle - Of Mecca Cola.
* HollywoodHacking: Alif seems to be able to hack and program intuitively, without really knowing how his own code works. This allows him to suddenly revolutionize computing after a single burst of inspiration, writing programs that understand metaphors and layers of meaning instead of binary ones and zeroes.
* UsefulNotes/IslamicDress: Dina shocks her family and the community by choosing to veil like the Arab upper caste.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Vikram the Vampire
* NotSoDifferent: [[BigBad The Hand]] gives Alif one of these while the latter [[spoiler: is being held in a HellholePrison]]; although he and Alif are on opposite sides, he argues that both of them are motivated by the rush of what they do far more than any ideology.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Demons are rogue jinn which often take the form of froglike creatures or dragons with knives for teeth
* OurGeniesAreDifferent: The Jinn are nonhumans who can change forms at will. They have WiFi. There is one 'marid' who states that she was imprisioned by that thief Aladdin.. [[spoiler:She is imprisoned by The Hand in a bottle of Mecca Cola. New Quarter nearly asks her for wishes but Dina makes him let her go]]
* SelfDeprecation: G. Willow Wilson is a female American convert to Islam, as is a major supporting character in the novel. She is almost always called "the convert," and is frequently criticized or ridiculed by other characters as well as the narrator.
* ShadesOfConflict - Alif helps people hide from StateSec with his hacks whether they are jihadists or just porn lovers, the jinn have a code of honor, but mostly are out for themselves (although they [[TheCavalry save the day]] for our heroes several times) and the Hand has people locked in [[HellHolePrison prison]] for hacking in which prisoners are starved, tortured, and in some instances, raped. [[spoiler: both Alif and the Hand end up breaking half the computer systems in the city, with various consequences from the internet going down to riots, looting and hangings]].
* ShoutOut: [[StarWars "These are not the banu adam you are looking for."]]
** At least two to NeilGaiman: a short dream sequence taken right out of AmericanGods, and game of wits from the first arc of {{Sandman}}.
** The entrance to the jinn's alley is hidden the same way as the entrance to the {{Labyrinth}}.
* StateSec - Employs the [[BigBad Hand]] who censors the internet to prop up the emir's corrupt regmine.
* TomeOfEldritchLore - The Alf Yeom can be this. [[spoiler: it apparently shifts due to whoever reads it]]
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized - [[spoiler:After the grid is taken down by Alif's code, revolutionaries gather in the street, and a prince is hung. Alif believes it's New Quarter and chews them out, but it's really the body of the Hand]]. The crowds are composed of everyone from Islamists to Communists, all groups Alif helped with his hacking.
* UptownGirl: Alif, a poor man, is in love with an aristocratic woman from the other part of town. They met online, but in real life, their love is mutual. [[spoiler: In the end [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Dina]] gets Alif]].
* VillainousBreakdown: The Hand after [[spoiler: the royal family disowns him in a (failed) attempt to appease the uprising.]]
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This work has examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: The programs based upon The Alf Yeom, have an unexpected effects.
* ArabianNights: The Alf Yeom is an inversion of the Arabian Nights- A Thousand and One Days instead. The actual ArabianNights is used as a decoy.
* AnotherDimension - The land of the Jinn
* TheAlcatraz- The only way out of HellHolePrison is through a burning dangerous desert.
* AuthorAvatar - The Convert has many similarities to the author, a female convert to Islam [[spoiler:who becomes pregnant during the story, which was written while the author was pregnant]].
* BreakingSpeech: The Hand to Alif.
* BettyAndVeronica- Dina and Intisar, respectively.
* BlandNameProduct - [[WorldOfWarcraft World of Battle Craft]].
* {{Catgirl}}
* CoolOldGuy: Sheikh Bilal
* DefectorFromDecadence -[[spoiler:New Quarter 01]] who is a prince, but hacks to fight the regime.
* TheDreaded: Vikram the Vampire among street thugs, The Hand among hackers.
* DuelingHackers: Alif is struggling to keep the Hand of God, the state censorship network, out of his system and those of his customers. [[spoiler:This struggle eventually spills out into RealLife with the requisite murder attempts.]]
* EmbarrassingFirstName - Alif refuses to be called by his first name for much of the book, since he says it's too common. [[spoiler: His name is Mohammed]]
* FamedInStory: Alif, at least among hackers. Also The Hand.
* ForcedIntoEvil - [[spoiler: Intisar is somewhere between this and Face Heel Turn]]
* GenieInABottle - Of Mecca Cola.
* HollywoodHacking: Alif seems to be able to hack and program intuitively, without really knowing how his own code works. This allows him to suddenly revolutionize computing after a single burst of inspiration, writing programs that understand metaphors and layers of meaning instead of binary ones and zeroes.
* UsefulNotes/IslamicDress: Dina shocks her family and the community by choosing to veil like the Arab upper caste.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Vikram the Vampire
* NotSoDifferent: [[BigBad The Hand]] gives Alif one of these while the latter [[spoiler: is being held in a HellholePrison]]; although he and Alif are on opposite sides, he argues that both of them are motivated by the rush of what they do far more than any ideology.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Demons are rogue jinn which often take the form of froglike creatures or dragons with knives for teeth
* OurGeniesAreDifferent: The Jinn are nonhumans who can change forms at will. They have WiFi. There is one 'marid' who states that she was imprisioned by that thief Aladdin.. [[spoiler:She is imprisoned by The Hand in a bottle of Mecca Cola. New Quarter nearly asks her for wishes but Dina makes him let her go]]
* SelfDeprecation: G. Willow Wilson is a female American convert to Islam, as is a major supporting character in the novel. She is almost always called "the convert," and is frequently criticized or ridiculed by other characters as well as the narrator.
* ShadesOfConflict - Alif helps people hide from StateSec with his hacks whether they are jihadists or just porn lovers, the jinn have a code of honor, but mostly are out for themselves (although they [[TheCavalry save the day]] for our heroes several times) and the Hand has people locked in [[HellHolePrison prison]] for hacking in which prisoners are starved, tortured, and in some instances, raped. [[spoiler: both Alif and the Hand end up breaking half the computer systems in the city, with various consequences from the internet going down to riots, looting and hangings]].
* ShoutOut: [[StarWars "These are not the banu adam you are looking for."]]
** At least two to NeilGaiman: a short dream sequence taken right out of AmericanGods, and game of wits from the first arc of {{Sandman}}.
** The entrance to the jinn's alley is hidden the same way as the entrance to the {{Labyrinth}}.
* StateSec - Employs the [[BigBad Hand]] who censors the internet to prop up the emir's corrupt regmine.
* TomeOfEldritchLore - The Alf Yeom can be this. [[spoiler: it apparently shifts due to whoever reads it]]
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized - [[spoiler:After the grid is taken down by Alif's code, revolutionaries gather in the street, and a prince is hung. Alif believes it's New Quarter and chews them out, but it's really the body of the Hand]]. The crowds are composed of everyone from Islamists to Communists, all groups Alif helped with his hacking.
* UptownGirl: Alif, a poor man, is in love with an aristocratic woman from the other part of town. They met online, but in real life, their love is mutual. [[spoiler: In the end [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Dina]] gets Alif]].
* VillainousBreakdown: The Hand after [[spoiler: the royal family disowns him in a (failed) attempt to appease the uprising.]]
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