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Michael Muhammad Knight

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.
Muhammad: Forty Introductions
Why I Am a Salafi
Tripping with Allah
William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an
Journey to the End of Islam
Osama Van Halen
Blue-Eyed Devil
Impossible Man
The Taqwacores

Books

Muhammad: Forty Introductions
Why I Am a Salafi
Tripping with Allah
William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an
Journey to the End of Islam
Osama Van Halen
Blue-Eyed Devil
Impossible Man
The Taqwacores

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