Ebook {Epub PDF} The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight

 · Michael Muhammad Knight is a novelist, essayist, journalist, and scholar. He converted to Islam at sixteen and traveled to Islamabad at seventeen to study at a madrasa. His books include The Taqwacores, Blue-Eyed Devil, Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing, and Why I Am a Salafi. He is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Central Florida in www.doorway.ru: Catapult. Michael Muhammad Knight. · Rating details · 1, ratings · reviews. THE TAQWACORES vividly depicts day-to-day life in a Muslim punk house in Buffalo, New York. Characters include Rabeya, a burqa-clad riot girl; Umar, a straightedge Sunni; Muzammil Sadiq, who struggles against orthodox Islamic homophobia; and Jehangir Tabari, a drunken Sufi saint who dreams of putting on a Muslim Punk /5. Michael Muhammad Knight is a novelist, essayist, journalist, and scholar. He converted to Islam at sixteen and traveled to Islamabad at seventeen to study at a madrasa. His books include The Taqwacores, Blue-Eyed Devil, Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing, and Why I Am a www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 50 secs.

Michael Muhammad Knight 's first novel, The Taqwacores, published by Soft Skull Press, has been labeled everything from a manifesto for the Muslim punk movement to a Catcher In The Rye for young. 'Michael Muhammad Knight is an excellent, intelligent writer The Taqwacores is a highly engaging read entertaining and thought-provoking.' --Rock Sound Magazine. About the Author. Michael Muhammad Knight grew up Irish Catholic and converted to Islam aged 16 after reading Malcolm X's biography. He travelled to Pakistan to study Islam. With his novel "Taqwacore", Michael Muhammad Knight created a blueprint for an individual youth protest culture in the US: "Muslim Punk". His book is both shocking and provocative. But "Taqwacore" has struck a chord with Muslim youngsters who say it reflects their own conflicts of identity. By Naima El Moussaoui.

The Taqwacores, a novel by Michael Muhammad Knight, written in , is a fictitious story of Yusef and a group of Muslim punks living in Buffalo, New York. Knight`s novel inspired young Muslims in the United States to form punk bands and build the. The Taqwacores is the debut novel by Michael Muhammad Knight, depicting a fictitious Islamic punk rock scene. The title is a portmanteau of taqwa, an Islamic concept of love and fear for Allah, and Hardcore, the punk rock subgenre. Some of the most popular taqwacore bands are: The Kominas, Al-Thawra, Secret Trial Five, and Fedayeen. The Taqwacores () by Michael Muhammad Knight (Favorite Author) of 5 Votes: 1. ISBN. (ISBN ) languge. English.