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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 Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Middle East

Critic Reviews

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