Michael Muhammad Knight is an American author whose writings resonate particularly with young American Muslims. His work is often described as necessary and hopeful, earning him the moniker "Islam's gonzo experimentalist." Knight is known for his provocative approach to contemporary culture, exploring themes of Islam and identity with a unique literary style. His essays and journalistic pieces, frequently employing gonzo journalism principles, offer a bold and unconventional perspective.
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.