Books written by Michael Muhammad Knight
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Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing
... game while he's still ahead and focusing on pure scholarship from this moment on—Bruiser Brody with his forehead full of scars disappearing into the quiet soft darkness of those Widener Library stacks and never coming back out.
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Waterbaby: A Novel (Large Print 16pt)
August 3, 2001 Abandoning his own chances in the Mission Beach Triathlon, sportswriterGary Marr-Burgess, 46, stopped his race during the rough-waterportion of the three-part race to assist a struggling fellow-swimmer.
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Why I Am a Five Percenter
Black lesbian poet and essayist Audre Lorde wrote a well-known “Open Letter to Mary Daly,” in which she charges Daly with failing to think through her own white privilege. In Lorde's critique, even Daly's promotion of the Goddess is ...
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Blue-Eyed Devil: A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America
The result is this semi-autobiographical book, with multiple histories of Fard and the landscape of American Islam woven into Knight’s own story.
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The Taqwacores
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, ...
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Muhammad: Forty Introductions
"More than a survey of the prophet’s life and times, this book is an introduction to the stunning diversity of Islam and the ways in which Muslims think, dream, and make Muhammad into their very own prophet." —Publishers Weekly (starred ...
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Journey to the End of Islam
St. George killed a dragon that had guarded a spring, pond, or lake—like BaalHadad, who had killed a serpent at the Tree of Life. ... A shrine to Khidr the Green Man was often honored as a St. George shrine and vice versa.
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Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community
In this book, Michael Muhammad Knight studies the development of AAC/NIH discourse over a period of thirty years, tracing a surprising consistency behind a facade of serial reinvention.
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Osama Van Halen
Amazing Ayyub, an Iranian Shi'ite skinhead, and Rabeya, a burqa-wearing punk, have kidnapped Matt Damon and are holding him hostage.
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Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community
In this book, Michael Muhammad Knight studies the development of AAC/NIH discourse over a period of thirty years, tracing a surprising consistency behind a facade of serial reinvention.
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Impossible Man
It is also the story of a teenager’s troubled path to maturity and the influences that steady him along the way.
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Magic In Islam
... Black Orientalism and Black Gods of the Metropolis.” In Edward E. Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler, eds. The New Black Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions. Bloomington, IN. Indiana University Press ...
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William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an
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.
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Muhammad: Forty Introductions
Muhammad: Forty Introductions offers a distinct and nuanced take on the life and teachings of the prophet Muhammad, using a traditional genre of Islamic literature called the forty hadiths collection.
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Jane: A Murder
Each piece in Jane has its own form that serves as an important fissure, disrupting the tabloid, ''page-turner'' quality of the story, and eventually returning the reader to deeper questions about girlhood, empathy, identification, and the ...
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Muhammad's Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage
Muhammad's Body introduces questions of embodiment and materiality to the study of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Impossible Man
It is also the story of a teenager’s troubled path to maturity and the influences that steady him along the way.