When Michael Muhammad Knight sets out to write the definitive
biography of his Anarcho-Sufi hero and mentor, writer Peter Lamborn
Wilson (aka Hakim Bey), he makes a startling discovery that changes
everything. At the same time that he grows disillusioned with his
idol, Knight finds that his own books have led to American Muslim
youths making a countercultural idol of him, placing him on the
same pedestal that he had given Wilson.
In an attempt to forge his own path, Knight pledges himself to an
Iranian Sufi order that Wilson had almost joined, attempts to write
the Great American Queer Islamo-Futurist Novel, and even creates
his own mosque in the wilderness of West Virginia. He also employs
the cut-up writing method of Bey's friend, the late William S.
Burroughs, to the Qur'an, subjecting Islam's holiest scripture to
literary experimentation.
William S. Burroughs vs. the Qur'an is the struggle of a
hero-worshiper without heroes and the meeting of religious and
artistic paths, the quest of a writer as spiritual seeker.
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