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In his quest for an indigenous American Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight embarks on a series of interstate odysseys. Traveling 20,000 miles by Greyhound in sixty days, he squats in run-down mosques, pursues Muslim romance, is detained at the U.S.-Canadian border with a trunkload of Shia literature, crashes Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) conventions, stink-palms Cat Stevens, limps across Chicago to find the grave of Noble Drew Ali, and hunts down the truth of the Nation of Islam mystery-man, W.D. Fard filling dozens of notebooks along the way. The result is this semi-autobiographical book, with multiple histories of Fard and the landscape of American Islam woven into Knights own story.
In the course of his adventures Knight sorts out his own relationship to Islam as he journeys from punk provocateur to a recognized voice in the community, and watches first-hand the collapse of a liberal Islamic dream. The books extensive cast of characters includes anarcho-Sufi heretics, vegan kung-fu punks, tattoo-sleeved converts in hardcore bands, spiritual drug dealers, Islamic feminists, slick media entrepreneurs, sages of the street, the grandsons of Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X, and a group called Muslims for Bush.
With its journalistic approach to Islams intersection with race, gender, and Americanization, "Blue-Eyed Devil" offers a brutally honest but ultimately compassionate look at the marginal underground of Islamic America.
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An Eye-Opening Wild Ride through Muslim America
6. Dezember 2009
Format:Taschenbuch
Blue-Eyed Devil is a memoir that describes a series of road trips around the United States to places related to both the history and current practice of Islam in America. The traveler, Michael Muhammad Knight, is a white American punk rocker and professional wrestling fan, who converted to Islam as a teenager after listening to a lot of hip hop and watching Spike Lee's Malcolm X. Following his conversion he went to study in mosques in Pakistan. Several of the Asian American Muslims he encounters refer to him as Johnny Walker, after John Walker Lindh. However, Knight is far from a fundamentalist, and poignantly describes various challenges he faces regarding his faith, relationships, and life in general. The journeys in this book take place more than ten years after his conversion.
Knight's journeys take him to places ranging from the giant national ISNA conference in the Chicago convention center, to "building" with members of the Five Percent Nation (an off-shoot of the Nation of Islam that is very influential in hip hop) in Harlem and Brooklyn, and hanging out with Muslim hardcore bands in San Francisco that are into veganism and kung fu. I enjoy books that take me into worlds that I know little about, and this one certainly did. As a non-Muslim, I appreciated the glossary of Arabic terms at the back of the book, which I had to flip back to frequently. Plenty of background information is provided on historical figures he mentions, or whose graves he attempts to visit: The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, Noble Drew Ali, etc. In particular, he spends a lot of time on trying to track down the interesting and mysterious story of W.D. Fard, who is regarded as an avatar of Allah by the Nation of Islam.
There are many memorable passages in this book: a meeting with his schizophrenic father in the West Virginia mountains; an aborted romance with a Muslim girl in Arkansas, whose parents want her to marry a doctor; hanging out with a frozen goat's head in a run-down, nearly-deserted mosque in Oregon; splashing in a city fountain with a mohawked Muslim punkette ; and his participation in the chest-slapping grief ritual in a Shiite mosque. By reading this book, I've gained a greater appreciation for the diverse mosaic of people that make up the U.S. Muslim community, versus the monolith of fundamentalists that is portrayed in the mass media. Knight demonstrates a lot of range as a writer, from humor to tragedy. I'm looking forward to reading his new Journey to the End of Islam, which describes his travels in the Middle East and Africa, including his pilgrimage to Mecca.
Knight's journeys take him to places ranging from the giant national ISNA conference in the Chicago convention center, to "building" with members of the Five Percent Nation (an off-shoot of the Nation of Islam that is very influential in hip hop) in Harlem and Brooklyn, and hanging out with Muslim hardcore bands in San Francisco that are into veganism and kung fu. I enjoy books that take me into worlds that I know little about, and this one certainly did. As a non-Muslim, I appreciated the glossary of Arabic terms at the back of the book, which I had to flip back to frequently. Plenty of background information is provided on historical figures he mentions, or whose graves he attempts to visit: The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, Noble Drew Ali, etc. In particular, he spends a lot of time on trying to track down the interesting and mysterious story of W.D. Fard, who is regarded as an avatar of Allah by the Nation of Islam.
There are many memorable passages in this book: a meeting with his schizophrenic father in the West Virginia mountains; an aborted romance with a Muslim girl in Arkansas, whose parents want her to marry a doctor; hanging out with a frozen goat's head in a run-down, nearly-deserted mosque in Oregon; splashing in a city fountain with a mohawked Muslim punkette ; and his participation in the chest-slapping grief ritual in a Shiite mosque. By reading this book, I've gained a greater appreciation for the diverse mosaic of people that make up the U.S. Muslim community, versus the monolith of fundamentalists that is portrayed in the mass media. Knight demonstrates a lot of range as a writer, from humor to tragedy. I'm looking forward to reading his new Journey to the End of Islam, which describes his travels in the Middle East and Africa, including his pilgrimage to Mecca.
A uniquely American road trip
13. Juli 2011
Format:Taschenbuch
Michael Muhammad Knight opens the book with an epigram: "The pure products of America go crazy." Knight has lived an interesting enough life that "Blue-Eyed Devil" defies easy categorization. The book alternates between honest, personal vignettes; ethnographies; road-trip memoir and offbeat history lessons effortlessly. Knight is a man trying to find what place a blue-eyed devil has in Islam, and how Islam fits in the American experience. To try to find some kind of answer, embarks on a road trip--an what could be more American than that? He travels 20,000 miles on a Greyhound bus, makes mischief at stuffy conventions, searches for the identity behind the Nation of Islam's mysterious WD Fard, and gets sued for his trouble.
The book is also hilarious, since Knight's anarchistic style undergirds his genuinely moving quest to understand his place in the world. "Blue-Eyed Devil" is totally unlike any other book you'll read, and quintessentially American.
The book is also hilarious, since Knight's anarchistic style undergirds his genuinely moving quest to understand his place in the world. "Blue-Eyed Devil" is totally unlike any other book you'll read, and quintessentially American.
you can't talk about islam in america without talking about race
13. Juli 2011
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There's a point where MMK goes to a youth camp, the only non-South Asian there, and expresses surprise upon learning that there can be "half ass Muslims" just like half ass Catholics, and later comes to understand that the American Islam that interests him will never be muslim mom and muslim dad and muslim kids at the fourth of July but that he finds himself a part of that other Islam in America that has so often been marginalized as somehow unreal despite the dreadfully real experiences people have had, the Islam of the convert, the "radical" (which this book defines in so many ways) Islam of WD Fard, Hakim Bey, and Alexander Russell Webb.
The book is also funny, well written by a weird wrestler punk haunting college campuses for showers and trying to romance a girl in Alabama. It's not only a unique and the best book on "Islam in America" but it is, generally, about religious experience, a living with a changing faith, a search for community. It's stuck with me for months after reading it and will do so for a long time.
The book is also funny, well written by a weird wrestler punk haunting college campuses for showers and trying to romance a girl in Alabama. It's not only a unique and the best book on "Islam in America" but it is, generally, about religious experience, a living with a changing faith, a search for community. It's stuck with me for months after reading it and will do so for a long time.
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