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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Knight, Michael Muhammad
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| Publisher: |
Soft Skull
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| Date: |
1/13/2009
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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 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 as a manifesto for Muslim punk rockers and a “
Catcher in the Rye for young Muslims.”
There are three different cover colors; red, white, and blue.
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