In his quest for an indigenous American Islam, Michael Muhammad
Knight embarks on a series of interstate odysseys. Traveling 20,000
miles by Greyhound in sixty days, he squats in run-down mosques,
pursues Muslim romance, is detained at the U.S.-Canadian border
with a trunkload of Shia literature, crashes Islamic Society of
North America (ISNA) conventions, stink-palms Cat Stevens, limps
across Chicago to find the grave of Noble Drew Ali, and hunts down
the truth of the Nation of Islam mystery-man, W.D. Fard filling
dozens of notebooks along the way. The result is this
semi-autobiographical book, with multiple histories of Fard and the
landscape of American Islam woven into Knights own story.
In the course of his adventures Knight sorts out his own
relationship to Islam as he journeys from punk provocateur to a
recognized voice in the community, and watches first-hand the
collapse of a liberal Islamic dream. The books extensive cast of
characters includes anarcho-Sufi heretics, vegan kung-fu punks,
tattoo-sleeved converts in hardcore bands, spiritual drug dealers,
Islamic feminists, slick media entrepreneurs, sages of the street,
the grandsons of Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X, and a group called
Muslims for Bush.
With its journalistic approach to Islams intersection with race,
gender, and Americanization, "Blue-Eyed Devil" offers a brutally
honest but ultimately compassionate look at the marginal
underground of Islamic America.
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