{"id":1345,"date":"2009-03-27T02:06:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T09:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2009-03-27T02:06:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T09:06:22","slug":"the-taqwacores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/03\/27\/the-taqwacores\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taqwacores"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-1345\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Taqwacores-Michael-Muhammad-Knight\/dp\/1593762291\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1238144046&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Taqwacores<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author:<\/strong> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Michael%20%20Muhammad%20Knight\">Michael  Muhammad Knight<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 256 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Soft Skull Press; Revised Edition edition (January 1, 2009)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 1593762291<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-1593762292<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This book claims to be about Muslim punks, but in reality its a coming of age, and coming to his personal understanding of Islam, story of a Muslim young man.\u00c2\u00a0 Yusef&#8217;s family is from Pakistan, and he&#8217;s attending a university in Buffalo, NY.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s living in a &#8220;Muslim&#8221; house, but the people inside are a crazy quilt of the edges of Islam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taqwacore\" target=\"_blank\">Taquacore<\/a> is the name given to the punk rock being performed on the west coast of the US by Islamic bands.<\/p>\n<p>The ending of the book comes in a rush and will bowl you over like a tsunnami.\u00c2\u00a0 I recommend this book highly!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-1345\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 1345);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-1345\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-1345\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Taqwacores Author: Michael Muhammad Knight Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Soft Skull Press; Revised Edition edition (January 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1593762291 ISBN-13: 978-1593762292 This book claims to be about Muslim punks, but in reality its a coming of age, and coming to his personal understanding of Islam, story of a Muslim young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-lH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}