{"product_id":"the-taqwacores","title":"The Taqwacores","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally self-published on photocopiers and spiralbound by hand, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Taqwacores\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has now come to be read as a manifesto for Muslim punk rockers and a “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCatcher in the Rye\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e for young Muslims.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Muhammad Knight","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67692304629954,"sku":null,"price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/8002\/4002\/files\/91ByKzIalpL._SY522.jpg?v=1791384925","url":"https:\/\/frictionbooks.com\/products\/the-taqwacores","provider":"Friction Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}