The Taqwacores Download

Author: Michael Muhammad Knight
Edition: Revised Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1593762291

The Taqwacores

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. Get The Taqwacores literature books for free.
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 Musl Check The Taqwacores our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

The Taqwacores Download

Their living room hosts parties and prayers, with a hole smashed in the wall to indicate the direction of Mecca
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 Musl

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