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"Amazing Ayyub, an Iranian Shi'ite skinhead, and Rabeya, a burqa-wearing punk, have kidnapped Matt Damon and are holding him hostage. The demand that Hollywood depict Muslims in a positive light - "Just one movie where we're not these two-dimensional Al-Qaeda stereotypes." But Damon's concerned they're playing into the same terrorist paradigm, thereby furthering the neoconservative perception of Islam." "Meanwhile, Ayyub embarks on a mission to rid the taqwacore scene of a Muslim pop-punk band called Shah 79. Along the way, he makes himself invisible, escapes punk-eating zombies in a mosque off the desert highway, and runs into some psychobilly jinns. Things turn existential when Ayyub finds himself face-to-face with his creator - no, not Allah, but the author himself." This riotous journey of enlightenment reads like a religious service for teenagers on Halloween. But it isn't all raucous fun; written into his own novel, the author finds he is at the mercy of his creation.

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Knight (The Taqwacores) goes meta in this very self-involved satirical blitz, throwing characters from previous books into a psycho showdown with the author. The less than cohesive central narrative follows Iranian Shiite skinhead Amazing Ayyub-after he and burka-wearing punker Rabeya kidnap Matt Damon in a bid to end Hollywood's puerile depiction of Muslims-on a cross-country journey to assassinate a sellout Muslim punk band. As Amazing Ayyub travels and dodges zombies and psychobilly jinns, first-person recollections by "the author" document his attending Islamic academic conferences and drolly conversing about Sufism, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his inability to create well-rounded female characters. The obligatory (and somewhat disappointing) final showdown between Knight and his perennially pissed-off creations hints that Knight's interest remains with the antic adventures of the characters he clearly adores, rather than in, say, any traditional notions of plot. Knight's potential is evident on nearly every page, but the in-jokes and frequent self-references will limit this book's appeal to readers well versed in things taqwacore. (July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781593762421
  • Publisher: Soft Skull Press, Inc.
  • Publication date: 6/2/2009
  • Edition description: Original
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 1,218,054
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.10 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Table of Contents

Progressive Islam vs. The Double-Dong Brothers 1

Rabeya vs. Matt Damon 23

The Kominas vs. Punk-Eating Zombies 51

Amazing Ayyub vs. The Psychobilly Jinns 85

Intermission: Bombay Unger and Yusuf Islam Start a Taqwacore Band 107

Taqwacores vs. The Islamic Society of North America 129

F. Scott Fitzgerald vs. Five Desi Girls 143

The Main Event 173

Afterword 209

Acknowledgments 213

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