Purchase
Soft Skull Press
January 2009
On Sale: January 1, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 1593762291
EAN: 9781593762292
Paperback
Add to Wish List
Fiction Family Life
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.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2025 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy