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Jun. 5th, 2011 02:58 pmJourney to the End of Islam by Michael Muhammad Knight
Notes are to remind myself what I want to Google later. Unfortunately the bookmark to 3 pages fell-out so I would have to re-read the book to find everything I wanted to Google.
p 50, He talks about Shah Husain and Madho Lal.
p 62 Description of a bhang lassi being made as "a mixture of bhang, milk, sugar, and maybe butter and then strained the liquid into a big pot." Sounds interesting.
p 161 He mentions chat/khat/qat.
p 163 Descriptions of hyenas in Ethiopia as considered between human and animal and between male and female. On 164, mentions myth of androgynous hyenas fucks bisexual moon.
p 210-1 It's painfully humorous to read how clueless some big production company was when they tried to get the plot changed several times for a film adaptation for The Taqwacores only to suggest "a film about a group of American Muslim punks living together in a house together," and then have to be told that that was the book they just read.
p 213 "Truth: there were American Muslims who saw themselves on the edges of both America and Islam, and I was one of them, and no one on either side wanted to hear our voices." I just like that sentence.
p 216 Describes salvia as "the entheogenic drug that inexplicably remained legal in most states."
p 222 His fictional character Jehangir Tabari got served real legal papers from a Sufi shaykh's lawyers.
p 314-5 I just should photocopy these two pages that describe eunuchs as religious cops and traditional views of them as between worlds.
He mentions the number of locations that claims to have Husayn's head and quips that he must have had at least three heads. I'm thinking about shards of one head strewn about the globe.
Khidr is mentioned several times.
He mentioned selling rights to a company to turn Blue-Eyed Devil into a film. I want to know if that company has made it yet.
I think it was back in the Ethiopia chapters, but I remember something historical about a French gay man converting and having his own following for a limited time.
I still have to see both Taqwacore movies (documentary and then book adaptation.) Amazon has shown me a Taqwacore photo book. Me want to look.
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Notes are to remind myself what I want to Google later. Unfortunately the bookmark to 3 pages fell-out so I would have to re-read the book to find everything I wanted to Google.
p 50, He talks about Shah Husain and Madho Lal.
p 62 Description of a bhang lassi being made as "a mixture of bhang, milk, sugar, and maybe butter and then strained the liquid into a big pot." Sounds interesting.
p 161 He mentions chat/khat/qat.
p 163 Descriptions of hyenas in Ethiopia as considered between human and animal and between male and female. On 164, mentions myth of androgynous hyenas fucks bisexual moon.
p 210-1 It's painfully humorous to read how clueless some big production company was when they tried to get the plot changed several times for a film adaptation for The Taqwacores only to suggest "a film about a group of American Muslim punks living together in a house together," and then have to be told that that was the book they just read.
p 213 "Truth: there were American Muslims who saw themselves on the edges of both America and Islam, and I was one of them, and no one on either side wanted to hear our voices." I just like that sentence.
p 216 Describes salvia as "the entheogenic drug that inexplicably remained legal in most states."
p 222 His fictional character Jehangir Tabari got served real legal papers from a Sufi shaykh's lawyers.
p 314-5 I just should photocopy these two pages that describe eunuchs as religious cops and traditional views of them as between worlds.
He mentions the number of locations that claims to have Husayn's head and quips that he must have had at least three heads. I'm thinking about shards of one head strewn about the globe.
Khidr is mentioned several times.
He mentioned selling rights to a company to turn Blue-Eyed Devil into a film. I want to know if that company has made it yet.
I think it was back in the Ethiopia chapters, but I remember something historical about a French gay man converting and having his own following for a limited time.
I still have to see both Taqwacore movies (documentary and then book adaptation.) Amazon has shown me a Taqwacore photo book. Me want to look.
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