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The Taqwacores

Written by: Michael Muhammad Knight
Narrated by: Shahjehan Khan
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 A Muslim punk house in Buffalo, New York, inhabited by burqa-wearing riot girls, mohawked Sufis, straight-edge 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 and listened to as a manifesto for Muslim punk rockers and a Catcher in the Rye for young Muslims.

©2004 Michael Muhammad Knight (P)2009 Audible, Inc. Coming of Age Literary Fiction

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"The Hunter S. Thompson of Islamic literature." (Guardian U.K.)
"A manifesto for the Muslim punk movement." (Newsweek)

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