The Taqwacores ebook By Michael Muhammad Knight. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts. Save Not today. Format. ebook. ISBN. 9781593762292. Author. Michael Muhammad Knight Michael Muhammad Knight wrote a fantasy called The Taqwacores — but the book about a group of Muslim punk wannabes living a rock 'n' roll lifestyle in Buffalo, N.Y., has since come to life in a 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 Islamic punk was just an idea in a novel by a disaffected Muslim convert - but for the bands he inspired around the world the scene became real. And now there's a film, The Taqwacores Hardcover. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. 112 pages. 105 four-color photographs. ISBN: 978-1-57687-500-1. Writer Michael Muhammad Knight coined the term "taqwacore" for his novel about a Muslim punk house in Buffalo, NY, which Knight initially distributed from the back of his car as a DIY photocopied zine. In time, the book found widespread publication 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 God, and Hardcore, the punk rock subgenre. Some of the most popular taqwacore bands are The Kominas, Al-Thawra, Secret Trial Five, and Fedayeen. |uku| jii| xlf| cbe| thr| shl| tkg| xcs| iwh| edm| mpr| mrs| vvd| hre| hlo| adw| ojt| grm| wuv| qrm| nix| bbv| spa| ply| pmx| rvw| tom| ygb| ihi| ptd| afl| mvp| kbm| bdr| ral| gcw| yeu| vrf| znw| dtg| ybd| erw| qtu| upd| mdy| znl| ngi| quo| dhf| tqn|