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    Journey to the End of Islam

    By Michael Muhammad Knight

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    In Journey to the End of Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight whose work has led to him being hailed as both the Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson of American Islam wanders through Muslim countries, navigating between conflicting visions of his religion. Visiting holy sites in Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, and Ethiopia, Knight engages both the puritanical Islam promoted by Saudi globalization and the heretical strands of popular folk Islam: shrines, magic, music, and drugs. The conflict of global” and local” Islam speaks to Knight’s own experience approaching the Islamic world as a uniquely American Muslim with his own sources: the modern mythologies of the Nation of Islam and Five Percenters, as well as the arguments of Progressive Muslim thinkers for feminism and reform.

    Knight’s travels conclude at Islam’s spiritual center, the holy city of Mecca, where he performs the hajj required of every Muslim. During the rites of pilgrimage, he watches as all variations of Islam converge in one place, under the supervision of Saudi Arabia’s religious police. What results is a struggle to separate the spiritual from the political, Knight searching for a personal relationship to Islam in the context of how it's defined by the external world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoft Skull Press
    Release dateDec 10, 2009
    ISBN9781593765521
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    Michael Muhammad Knight

    Michael Muhammad Knight is Assistant Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, Muhammad’s Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage.

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    • 3/5
      Needed to be more familiar with Islam for more solid understanding but great read. More when off thumbs
    • 4/5
      Not everyone's cup of tea to be sure - the author being a blue-eyed follower of an offshoot of the Nation of Islam. Moreover, there's a stream of consciousness quality to the writing (some digressions, flashbacks, etc.), along with a hip-hoppy tone, and frequent use of Muslim terms that are never explained to the general reader (rakat, du'a, etc.), though can be inferred. So ... why would I recommend it? Knight is a westerner; as he says to one guy in Mecca who criticizes him for not changing his name: "I didn't convert to being an Arab!" In other words, he's even-handed about his positive and negative encounters, neither complaining all the time, nor fawning. He comes off as a bright, though eccentric, young man, who (in spite of the all the hip-hop) expresses himself well.