Alai is a character in Orson Scott Card's best-known novel, Ender's Game that was a part of Ender's "jeesh". A student of North African descent in the Battle School, he was an exceptional student although not a member of Dragon Army under the command of Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin. He still was, however, one of the final ten commanders that won the Formic War. He was also a close friend of Julian Delphiki (aka Bean). Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is a prolific and best-selling author working in numerous genres. ... Enders Game (1985) is the best-known novel by Orson Scott Card, set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an alien society, the insectoid Buggers (more formally known as Formics). Having barely survived two separate Bugger invasions, humanity institutes a program for the breeding and training... A jeesh is a word thought up by Orson Scott Card for use in Enders Game. ...  Northern Africa (UN subregion)  geographic, including above North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent. ... In the science fiction novel Enders Game and its sequels, by Orson Scott Card, Battle School was a military academy in Earth orbit. ... Dragon Army was the fictional play-army which Ender Wiggin was assigned to command in Orson Scott Cards Enders Game. ... Andrew Ender Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Cards science fiction story Enders Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Enders Shadow. ... Julian Delphiki, more commonly known as Bean, is the main character of the books Enders Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card. ...

Alai appears in the later books in the Bean Quartet as well, including Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets. The cover art for Shadow of the Hegemon features Bean standing in the metaphorical shadow of Earth, under control of the hegemon Peter Wiggin. ... Shadow Puppets, by Orson Scott Card, is the sequel to Shadow of the Hegemon and the third book in the Enders Shadow series (often called the Bean Quartet). ...

In Shadow Puppets, Alai has become a de facto caliph for the Muslim nations, being their chief military, political and spiritual leader. He then successfully orchestrates them into a combined attack against China, removing from China's control both its recent acquisitions in India and the rest of Southern Asia, and also much older conquests such as Tibet, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. Caliph is the term or title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah, or community of Islam. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of Islam. ... This is a region of the continent of Asia that can have the following interpretations: The Indian Subcontinent and nearby islands in the Indian Ocean; see South Asia India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka All of Asia that is considered to be Southwest, South and Southeast Asia. ... Tibet (older spelling Thibet; Tibetan: བོད་, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西藏, Pinyin: XÄ«zàng or Chinese: 藏区, Pinyin: ZàngqÅ« [the two names are used with different connotations; see Name section below]) is a region in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ... Xinjiang (Uyghur: (Shinjang); Chinese: æ–°ç–†; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Hsin1-chiang1; Postal Pinyin: Sinkiang), full name Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Uyghur: شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونى (Shinjang Uyghur Aptonom Rayoni); Simplified Chinese: 新疆维吾尔自治区; Traditional Chinese: 新疆維吾爾自治區; Pinyin: XÄ«njiāng Wéiwúěr ZìzhìqÅ«), is an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Inner Mongolia (Mongolian: ᠥᠪᠦᠷ ᠮᠣᠨᠺᠤᠯᠤᠨ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠺᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠣᠷᠤᠨ r Mongghul-un bertegen Jasaqu Orun; Chinese: 内蒙古自治区; Hanyu Pinyin: N i Měnggǔ Z qū) is an Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ...

In Shadow of the Giant, Alai's Muslim empire starts to fall apart due to the actions of extremists. Alai faces a China under the control of the new emperor, Han Tzu (Hot Soup), a fellow Battle School graduate and member of Ender's inner circle, and an India under the control of the Battle School graduate Virlomi, who has declared herself a Hindu Goddess. Alai tries to ally with India by marrying Virlomi, but turmoil leads the extremists and the Indian people to conspire against him. Alai flees his empire after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt. After peace has been restored, Alai leaves Earth with the help of the International Fleet to colonize another world. Shadow of the Giant (2005), by Orson Scott Card, is the fourth book of what is being called The Shadow Quintet (informally referred to as the Bean Quintet), which started with Enders Shadow, followed by Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets. ... Extremism is the act of taking a belief, political view or ideology to its most literal extreme. ... The emperor or huángdì (皇帝) of China was the head of government and head of state of China from the Qin dynasty in 221 BC until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911. ... Hot Soup is a fictional character in Orson Scott Cards book Enders Game and its sequels. ... A participant in Battle School though not in Enders jeesh, Virlomi is an Indian girl who is a character in the science fiction series Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as a god. A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Earth is the third planet in the solar system. ... The International Fleet (I.F. or IF) is a fictional space military organization in the Enders Game series by Orson Scott Card created to protect Earth from the alien Formics. ...