Impossible Man
Published on 24. February 2009
272 pages
978-1-59376-360-2 (ISBN)
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Recognized by readers of his novel, The Taqwacores, as the godfather of American Muslim punk, Michael Muhammad Knight is a voice for the growing number of teenagers who choose neither side of the "Clash of Civilizations.” Knight has now written his personal story, a chronicle of his bizarre and traumatic boyhood and his conversion to Islam during a turbulent adolescence.
Impossible Man follows a boy's struggle in coming to terms with his father-a paranoid schizophrenic and white supremacist who had threatened to decapitate Michael when he was a baby-and his father's place in his own identity. It is also the story of a teenager's troubled path to maturity and the influences that steady him along the way. Knight's encounter with Malcolm X's autobiography transforms him from a disturbed teenager engaged in correspondence with Charles Manson to a zealous Muslim convert who travels to Pakistan and studies in a madrassa....
Impossible Man follows a boy's struggle in coming to terms with his father-a paranoid schizophrenic and white supremacist who had threatened to decapitate Michael when he was a baby-and his father's place in his own identity. It is also the story of a teenager's troubled path to maturity and the influences that steady him along the way. Knight's encounter with Malcolm X's autobiography transforms him from a disturbed teenager engaged in correspondence with Charles Manson to a zealous Muslim convert who travels to Pakistan and studies in a madrassa....
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04/2009
Shoemaker & Hoard, Div of Avalon Publishing Group Inc
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Person
Michael Muhammad Knight is a novelist, essayist, journalist, and scholar. He converted to Islam at sixteen and traveled to Islamabad at seventeen to study at a madrasa. His books include The Taqwacores, Blue-Eyed Devil, Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing, and Why I Am a Salafi. He is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- holy ghost and fire
- heroes and hero-worship
- the battle of swamp road
- creep, jr.
- helter skelter
- el-hajj malik el-shabazz
- prostrations and ejaculations
- malik al-kafi khan
- if we're lucky, his brain is shot to shit
- the one percenters
- witness
- actual facts
- full power
- a new hope
- traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy
- mein amriken musalman hoon
- the strongest man
- goat head soup
- drops of hellfire
- going home
- out of step
- slayers of husayn
- in the name of vince mcmahon
- history of the egyptian wrestling federation
- the furious cock
- manchild in the north country
- manned missiles
- dutch sailors
