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Soft Skull Press
January 2009
On Sale: January 1, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 1593762291
EAN: 9781593762292
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Fiction Family Life
A Muslim punk house in Buffalo, New York, inhabited by burqa-wearing riot girls, mohawked Sufis, straightedge Sunnis, Shiβa 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, βtaqwacore,β 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 βCatcher in the Rye for young Muslims.β There are three different cover colors; red, white, and blue.
 Media BuzzStudio 360 - July 25, 2009
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