Category:Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire

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This category contains articles pertaining to the alternate history short story "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire." The Point of Divergence took place some 700 years prior to the story where Muhammad converted to Christianity and became a monk rather than being the Prophet of Islam.

The story takes place in and around Alexandria, Egypt, in 1309 AD, and concerns the attempts by the magistrianos Basil Argyros to restart the stalled re-construction of the pharos or lighthouse which had been destroyed in an earthquake several generations earlier.