The Taqwacores

by Knight, Michael Muhammad
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ISBN: 9781593762292
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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 spiralbound by hand, The Taqwacores has now come to be read as a manifesto for Muslim punk rockers and a "Catcher in the Rye for young Muslims."

There are three different cover colors; red, white, and blue.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Knight, Michael Muhammad
  • ISBN: 9781593762292
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.25 x 0.71
  • Number Of Pages: 254
  • Publication Year: 2009

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