Michael Muhammad Knight embarks on a quest for an indigenous American Islam in 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 conventions, stink-palms Cat Stevens, and limps across Chicago to find the grave of Noble Drew Ali, 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.
- ISBN10 1593763514
- ISBN13 9781593763510
- Publish Date 25 March 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Publisher Counterpoint
- Imprint Soft Skull Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 256
- Language English