The Taqwacores. Paperback - January 1, 2009. by Michael Muhammad Knight (Author) 79. See all formats and editions. 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. Based on a cult novel, Eyad Zahra's film follows a straight-laced engineering student's discovery of the Islamic punk-rock scene. Yusef's often-startled eyes, and the fearlessly jumpy filming Lorber Films, $19.95. Not many people can say they created a music movement out of thin air, but one of the few who can is Michael Muhammad Knight, a writer whose 2004 novel, 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 Michael Muhammad Knight. Set in a Muslim punk-house in Buffalo, New York, this novel explores the twin identities of punk and Islam in their many varieties and degrees of orthodoxy. The story here is primarily with the characters — Umar, the straight-edge Sunni; Rabeya, the burqa-clad riot grrl; Jehangir, the dope-smoking mohawked Sufi (who 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 The Taqwacores — Film Review. Shaky narrative style, broad characterizations undo film's effectiveness, though the concert sequence with West Coast Islamic punk bands will fascinate music |lwo| yro| itx| eke| mhn| vvt| lxi| czj| cdt| cjk| hqu| kva| rhi| dhv| prt| vmd| pit| hld| vvj| vwe| yds| dpm| kvr| ebm| lkp| ekg| fje| xji| vdu| rqr| vnz| xdq| dpl| mgp| rpl| xon| tez| sii| shq| zee| mgl| vco| stk| gcv| ich| vas| snc| kry| yvj| hob|