Iris and the Caliphate

Iris and the Caliphate
"Iris and the Caliphate" is a story by Eric Brown in the anthology Fifteen edited by Stuart Douglas for Obverse Books.

Synopsis
The bus had broken down and, with the inevitablity the epitomised the life of Iris Wildthyme, trouble found them soon after. Iris finds herself in the court of a Caliph, one who rules with an iron hand, and who has to Iris' mounting horror taken to using a time machine in order to purify the world of heathen writings and thinking, dumping the unfortunate literati into the Jurassic era to fester and die.

Iris Wildthyme is many things, even when sober, but she is a Space-Time Adventuress first and foremost, and what the Caliph has devised as his solution to "the woman problem" drives her to take a stand against all the Caliph has built.