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The Taqwacores
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ISBN10: 1593762291
ISBN13: 9781593762292
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: Jan 13 2009
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.71 Width: 4.93 Depth: 7.25
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781593762292
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: Jan 13 2009
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.71 Width: 4.93 Depth: 7.25
Language: English
A Muslim punk house in Buffalo, New York, inhabited by burqa-wearing riot girls, mohawked Sufis, straightedge Sunnis, Shi'a skinheads, Indonesian skaters, Sudanese rude boys, gay Muslims, drunk Muslims, and feminists. Their living room hosts parties and prayers, with a hole smashed in the wall to indicate the direction of Mecca. Their life together mixes sex, dope, and religion in roughly equal amounts, expressed in devotion to an Islamo-punk subculture, taqwacore, named for taqwa, an Arabic term for consciousness of the divine.
Originally self-published on photocopiers and spiralbound by hand, The Taqwacores has now come to be read as a manifesto for Muslim punk rockers and a Catcher in the Rye for young Muslims. There are three different cover colors; red, white, and blue.
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