ABSTRACT
In the premodern era, overt fictions are rare. God being the creator of everything, he is the invisible author of every narrative, and especially of the global history of the world as suggested by the Koran. From a political point of view, in order to strengthen their legitimacy, Arab-Muslim dynasties wished the Koranic model to remain unique. The first fiction books appeared with the adaptation of foreign works into Arabic. Other fictions followed, more local and more Islamic. Indeed, they had to fit into an evolving Islam, whose rules depended mainly on theologians and caliphs as intermediaries between God and humans. But most premodern Arab-Muslim fiction writers seem to skip these intermediaries and prefer a direct relationship with God.
