Michael Muhammad Knight es un autor estadounidense cuyas obras resuenan especialmente entre los jóvenes musulmanes estadounidenses. Su escritura a menudo se describe como necesaria y esperanzadora, lo que le ha valido el apodo de "el experimentalista gonzo del Islam". Knight es conocido por su enfoque provocador de la cultura contemporánea, explorando temas de Islam e identidad con un estilo literario único. Sus ensayos y trabajos periodísticos, que a menudo emplean los principios del periodismo gonzo, ofrecen una perspectiva audaz y poco convencional.
Focusing on the historical context, this monograph delves into the Supreme Wisdom Lessons, examining the political and metaphysical discourses that shaped Fard Muhammad's environment. It highlights various interpretive traditions surrounding the Lessons and features an annotated edition, providing readers with a deeper understanding of their significance and impact.
Focusing on the life and teachings of the prophet Muhammad, this book blends historical and religious scholarship with original research and personal perspectives. It explores Muhammad's impact, illustrating how he is revered as a beloved figure while also facing significant criticism and controversy. Through a detailed narrative, the author examines the prophet's legacy and its diverse interpretations globally, providing a nuanced understanding of his role in the Islamic tradition and beyond.
Analysing classical Muslim literary representations of Muhammad's body as they emerge in Sunni hadith and sira from the eighth to the eleventh centuries, Michael Muhammad Knight argues that early Muslims' theories and imaginings about Muhammad's body contributed in significant ways to the construction of prophetic masculinity and authority.
The author tries to reconcile his Muslim identity with his drinking of the psychedelic tea ayahuasca, while also exploring the bigger issues of drugs, religion, modernity, and identity.
The Five Percenters are denounced by white America as racists, and orthodox Islam as heretics. Encoded within Five Percent culture is a profound critique of organized religion, from which the movement derives its name: only Five Percent can act as "poor righteous teachers" against the evil Ten Percent, the power structure which uses religion to deceive the Eighty-Five Percent, the "deaf, dumb, and blind" masses. Questioning his own relationship to the Five Percent, Knight directly confronts the community's most difficult teachings
A Muslim punk house in the Buffalo, New York, is the setting for this intriguing tale where party-goers and worshippers converge, with Shi'a skinheads, drunk Muslims, disciplined Sunnis, and other colorful characters coming together in order to experience "taqwacore," a consciousness of the divine. Original.