age ~54
from Richmond, VA
Michael Muhammad Knight (born 1977) is an American Muslim novelist, journalist, and performance artist. His writings are popular among American Muslim youth ...
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 in...
Author
Michael Muhammad Knight
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
ISBN #
1593762291
EAN Code
9781593762292
ISBN #
10
With a cast of characters ranging from Malcolm X to 50 Cent, Knight’s compelling work is the first detailed account of the movement inextricably linked with black empowerment, Islam, New York, and hip-hop. Containing unrivalled insider access to the movement’s elders, oral histories, and community l...
Author
Michael Muhammad Knight
Binding
Paperback
Pages
328
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
ISBN #
1851686150
EAN Code
9781851686155
ISBN #
9
In Journey to the End of Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight whose work has led to him being hailed as both the Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson of American Islam wanders through Muslim countries, navigating between conflicting visions of his religion. Visiting holy sites in Pakistan, Syria, Egypt...
Author
Michael Muhammad Knight
Binding
Paperback
Pages
360
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
ISBN #
1593762461
EAN Code
9781593762469
ISBN #
7
When Michael Muhammad Knight sets out to write the definitive biography of his Anarcho-Sufi” hero and mentor, writer Peter Lamborn Wilson (aka Hakim Bey), he makes a startling discovery that changes everything. At the same time that he grows disillusioned with his idol, Knight finds that his own bo...
Author
Michael Muhammad Knight
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
ISBN #
1593764154
EAN Code
9781593764159
ISBN #
6
The Salafi movement invests supreme Islamic authority in the precedents of the Salaf, the first three generations of Muslims, who represent a Golden Age” from which all subsequent eras can only decline. In Why I Am a Salafi, Michael Muhammad Knight confronts the problem of origins, questioning the ...
Author
Michael Muhammad Knight
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
ISBN #
1593766068
EAN Code
9781593766061
ISBN #
5
Recognized by readers of his novel, The Taqwacores, as the godfather of American Muslim punk, Michael Muhammad Knight is a voice for the growing number of teenagers who choose neither side of the Clash of Civilizations.” Knight has now written his personal story, a chronicle of his bizarre and trau...
Author
Michael Muhammad Knight
Binding
Paperback
Pages
352
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
ISBN #
1593762267
EAN Code
9781593762261
ISBN #
4
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, crash...
Author
Michael Muhammad Knight
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
ISBN #
1593762402
EAN Code
9781593762407
ISBN #
3
If Tripping with Allah is a road book, it’s a road book in the tradition of 2001: A Space Odyssey, rather than On the Road. Amazonian shamanism meets Christianity meets West African religion meets Islam in this work of reflection and inward adventure. Knight, the Hunter S. Thompson of Islamic liter...
Author
Michael Muhammad Knight
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
ISBN #
159376443X
EAN Code
9781593764432
ISBN #
2