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| Genre/Form: | Psychological fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Muhammad Knight |
| ISBN: | 9781593762292 1593762291 |
| OCLC Number: | 234437575 |
| Description: | 254 p. ; 18 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Michael Muhammad Knight. |
Abstract:
Publisher description: A Muslim punk house in Buffalo, New York, inhabited by burqa-wearing riot girls, mohawked Sufis, straightedge Sunnis, Shi'a skinheads, Indonesian skaters, Sudanese rude boys, gay Muslims, drunk Muslims, and feminists. Their living room hosts parties and prayers, with a hole smashed in the wall to indicate the direction of Mecca. Their life together mixes sex, dope, and religion in roughly equal amounts, expressed in devotion to an Islamo-punk subculture, "taqwacore," named for taqwa, an Arabic term for consciousness of the divine. Originally self-published on photocopiers and spiral-bound by hand, The Taqwacores has since been published in foreign translations, become the basis for two films, and is taught in various colleges and universities as a "Catcher in the Rye for young Muslims."
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"An absolutely fascinating book . . . Michael Muhammad Knight has bravely written what could well become an essential text."
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