Knight, Michael Muhammad - The Taqwacores

DEDICATION

for Mom, first, Allah second

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Ahmed Nassef and Jawad Ali at Muslim WakeUp!,

Jesse Townley at Alternative Tentacles, Mohja Kahf,

Asra Nomani, Amina Wadud, Tamara Smith, Dennis Cooper,

the Loyola Campus Greens, Afdhere Jama at Huriyah,

Peter Lamborn Wilson, Ben Meyers, Kevin Pyle, Mark Edwards, Erika Biddle

and everyone who supported this work in the Xerox/Kinko's edition.

First published in the USA by Michael Mohammead Knight in 2003

and by Autonomedia, Brooklyn, New York in 2004

This edition published 2007 by Telegram Books

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 10: 1-84659-017-5

ISBN 13: 978-1-84659-017-7

copyright © Michael Muhammad Knight, 2007

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