Through a close reading of Garry Kilworth's sci-fi novel The Night of Kadar (1978) as a map key to the challenges that will attend any Islamofuturist project, I argue for a distinction between Islamicate science fiction (as a mere projection of Islam into the future) and Islamofuturism (the placing of Islam at the center of future possibility). Insofar as science fiction is a literature of change—one in which "the limit" is the main problematic—then the very possibility of Islamofuturism relies on the negotiation of Islam's historical and normative limits, on the one hand, and the imaginative limits of the orientalist and secularist conventions of sci-fi, on the other.
I conclude that any viable Islamofuturism must confront four interrelated challenges: that of form, affect, technics, and home. In response, I propose four key concepts that might act as orienting coordinates for the aspiring Islamofuturist today: farq, adab, tafsir, and hijra.