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title: "The Taqwacores"
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# The Taqwacores

**Brand:** michael muhammad knight
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## Customer Reviews

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    For the strong stomached Muslim
  

*by I***I on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 February 2008*

This book crosses every line with a relish and it's almost a shame that it does as it perhaps detracts from some very valid points that it makes. The author, a revert to Islam, details the lives of several punk Muslims living in Buffalo. You have every category of Muslim represented, the hard line Salafi, the permanently burka wearing Muslimah, the pot smoking Mohawk sporting Sufi type and the Shia with Kerbala hang up as well as a whole host of other Muslims. The protagonist, Yusuf Ali is more mainstream and its through his eyes we see the punk drama enacted.The book seems aimed squarely at Muslims; indeed it's hard to see the average non-Muslim being able to appreciate most of the writing. Nor is book for the faint hearted, if blasphemy, profanity and textual pornography aren't to your liking than chances are neither will this book (though rest assured you don't have to be a complete pervert to enjoy this book, just have a strong stomach). There are serious points within the book and points that are well worth reading for the insights they give into the way people are trying to direct Islam and the way different types of Muslims try to live.

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    Believe the Hype.
  

*by Y***M on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 July 2011*

The Taqwacores is a fictional novel of a "taqwacore" movement, core as a suffix from the punk style of "hardcore" and "taqwa", from Arabic, meaning "piety". It's this portmanteau of words that best describes the book as a whole.It follows the journey of Yusuf, an American-Pakistani who moves into a house in Buffalo, New York. Despite his promises to his Mum that his house mates are pious, the reality is anything but. Quranic ayats are torn apart and reconstructed and the idea of Islam as we may know it as it is around us, is swallowed and regurgitated in a completely different form.But, that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad form. Religion is cut up and taken apart, put together in different ways. Ideas that plague the public on the role and meaning of Islam or its prophet are discussed throughout, giving Islam a more human face as we see a new side of it. It crosses boundaries, thus I wouldn't recommend this book to the particularly Orthodox or pious, but maybe it's exactly who this book is written for. The language weaves in and out finely, like a golden thread through a high quality needle, bringing in characters, themes and motifs in the same way thread is woven through an already intricate rug. Arabic slang is brought in with Punjabi and lots of references to particular Islamic practices that may be difficult for those from a non-Muslim background to necessarily read, but in the British edition there's a dictionary at the back for words that may not be understood. The Taqwacores, in all its glory, addresses complex theological questions and points in Islam that should have been raised much before its times.However, it's the novelty in some ways of this novel that detracts from that. A book about this shouldn't be a novelty just because the main characters are "punk" in their outlooks, fusing Iggy Pop with Sufi thought; but religion has always been meshed with what's currently around us. It's the novelty that in some ways has been the best and worst thing for this novel; Muslim punks have always been around, but it's this novelty of the punk that draws people to it. Either way, it makes for a more interesting read. All of the characters represent something unique in Islam, and even in this book, personalising a concept that's otherwise abstract to western civilisations since the dawning of the War on Terror. There's Jehangir, with his Mohawk who plays Adhan on his guitar, and there's Ayyub. Ayyub's like a Bukowski, he drinks, he smokes, he sees a lot of women, but he's also a Muslim. Then there's Rabeya who wears a Burqa that's adorned with punk patches.The Taqwacores is a riveting read through identity, politics, identity politics, culture,  religion, society, music, spirituality and what it means to be the subaltern when they reject most of the duelling civilisations around them, only taking what they want and putting up fingers to the rest.In addition to the points it raises, the beautiful prose of the book that's a cross between Burroughs, Hakim Bey and F Scott Fitzgerald, it gives a real life portrayal of punk scenes. And sure, for most of us punk scenes aren't really anything, but it provides an insight to an insular community who live on the edges. It's only within punk that the Taqwacores could ever be, and that's where it was and where it grew out of, forming the movement that it did.To paraphrase Public Enemy, don't believe the hype. But, in this case, the case of the Taqwacores, do believe the hype, and buy this book. It'll be the best couple of quid you ever spend.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    The Taqwacores
  

*by I***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 February 2011*

Hi ,i recieved the book quickly and in perfect condition.So great seller.Thank you very much.Best regardsImmy

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