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Blue-Eyed Devil eBook

A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America

de Michael Muhammad Knight
Livro eBook
idioma: inglês
Editor: Catapult, março de 2009 ‧
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Michael Muhammad Knight embarks on a quest for an indigenous American Islam in a series of interstate odysseys. Traveling 20,000 miles by Greyhound in sixty days, he squats in run-down mosques, pursues Muslim romance, is detained at the U.S.-Canadian border with a trunkload of Shia literature, crashes Islamic Society of North America conventions, stink-palms Cat Stevens, and limps across Chicago to find the grave of Noble Drew Ali, filling dozens of notebooks along the way. The result is this semi-autobiographical book, with multiple histories of Fard and the landscape of American Islam woven into Knight’s own story.

In the course of his adventures, Knight sorts out his own relationship to Islam as he journeys from punk provocateur to a recognized voice in the community, and watches first-hand the collapse of a liberal Islamic dream. The book’s extensive cast of characters includes anarchist Sufi heretics, vegan kungfu punks, tattoo-sleeved converts in hard-core bands, spiritual drug dealers, Islamic feminists, slick media entrepreneurs, sages of the street, the grandsons of Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X, and a group called Muslims for Bush.

Blue-Eyed Devil

A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America

de Michael Muhammad Knight

Propriedade Descrição
ISBN: 9781593763510
Editor: Catapult
Data de Lançamento: março de 2009
Idioma: Inglês
Tipo de produto: eBook
Formato e Compatibilidade: PDF para ADE
Classificação Temática: eBooks em Inglês > Religião e Moral > Islamismo e Maometismo
eBooks em Inglês > Guias Turísticos e Mapas > América do Norte
EAN: 9781593763510