Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Really intense, hilarious, multilayered book. Book Review: Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing by Michael Muhammad Knight. Within the American Muslim community, he has earned a reputation as an ostentatious cultural provocateur. It's dangerous to write a review of Knight's work because it might end up in his next book. Tripping With Allah Islam Drugs And Writing Michael Muhammad Knight Getting the books tripping with allah islam drugs and writing michael muhammad knight now is not type of challenging means. Home / Books / Book Reviews / Book Review: Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing by Michael Muhammad Knight. If Tripping with Allah is a road book, it’s a road book in the tradition of 2001: A Space Odyssey, rather than On the Road.Amazonian shamanism meets Christianity meets West African religion meets Islam in this work of reflection and inward adventure. Knight, the “Hunter S. Thompson of Islamic literature” seeks reconciliation between his Muslim identity and his drinking of Learn more. Coke is fun, and ayahuasca is anti-fun. i am a sufi muslim and have been working with ayahuasca in peru for over a year now. Just what I needed for the quarantine: A wild ride through worlds I was unaware of. Lisez des commentaires honnêtes et non biaisés sur les produits de la part nos utilisateurs. He converted to Islam at sixteen and traveled to Islamabad at seventeen to study at a madrasa. While reading the more academic portion, I recommended it to all my friends who care about drugs or Islam. He’s the eccentric who can look at the system and point out the bullshit not as an outsider but as someone who identifies with and loves it in his own way. When the fillers ended and the trip began all I learned was t. Aside from the useful historical analysis of drug use in Islamic history, this book has nothing to offer. References to 80s cartoons and science fiction are as numerous as references to Islam, and professional wrestling becomes a cornerstone for understanding the world. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. This book is painfully self-obsessed and self-indulgent. I'm not really sure what "this" is. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Except that associating him with Islam does a disservice to the myriad Muslim writers who are actually good. The rest is personal accounts of body building, sexual activites, and cheap philosophical conversations with stoners. What would he find? Please check your email for instructions on resetting your password. You could not single-handedly going gone books hoard or library or borrowing from your friends to retrieve them. Enter your email address below and we will send you your username, If the address matches an existing account you will receive an email with instructions to retrieve your username, Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing, I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of Use. But I really like this, especially the ayahuasca Fatima and Ali chapter, Knight's meditations on writing, and his worries about becoming too academic after grad school. Professional wrestling. What would be the day’s fair and balanced news for America? I don't know really know what kind of person could/would expect something like this. . Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing. Was still a fun read, and the ending, though definitely not for the faint-hearted, brought up some provocative questions about the ways one's experience of faith can be shaped by personal demons and blind acceptance of rigid cultural norms. There doesn't seem to be any kind of real thread beyond vaguely relating everything to "drugs", which here includes everything from hallucinogens to coffee to body-building and masturbation. Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing by Michael Muhammad Knight Soft Skull Press / 978-1593764432 / 256 pages. What it turns into is a really bizarre, self-referential kind of awkward journey through Knight's stream of consciousness. Posted on February 27, 2013 by Ali Scott “It was crazy, completely off the chart heretical , but also really Islam-positive” MMK after his experience with Ayahuasca. The San Francisco Chronicle described him as "one of the most necessary and, paradoxically enough, hopeful writers of Barack Obama's America," while The Guardian has described him as "the Hunter S. Thompson of Islamic literature," and his non-fiction work exe. This wasn't quite what I was hoping for, which was a non-western perspective on psychotropics. But what would happen if a religion could drink the vine? Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. some truly amazing sentences. I was ready for him to just get on with the ayahuasca trip, already but I forgave him stringing us along when I found that , as typical for mystical experriences, he didn't have much to say afterward because he saw that words are bullshit, especially theology, I might add. As someone up on here said, it was nothing like what I was expecting. and you may need to create a new Wiley Online Library account. If Tripping with Allah is a road book, it’s a road book in the tradition of 2001: A Space Odyssey, rather than On the Road.Amazonian shamanism meets Christianity meets West African religion meets Islam in this work of reflection and inward adventure. There doesn't seem to be any kind of real thread beyond vaguely relating everything to "drugs", which here includes everything from hallucinogens to coffee to body-building and masturbation. If Tripping with Allah is a road book, it’s a road book in the tradition of 2001: A Space Odyssey, rather than On the Road. I wish that a flag could drink ayahuasca, that we could just fold the Stars and Stripes into the shape of a cup, pour in the tea, and transport Uncle Sam into another dimension. I wish that a whole country could drink ayahuasca—not merely every individual citizen of a country, but the country itself, the spirit of the country. Islam. After all, our traditions tell us that it’s the outsiders who Muhammad and Jesus gravitated towards in the first place. If you haven't heard of record-smashing singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, is there any hope for you? Had to read through it for no reason other than wanting to know about his trip. If America drank ayahuasca and then withdrew into the filthy pit of its own heart, confronting all its fears and hate and finally purging itself of that negative energy, maybe America would come out Muslim: sucked through a black hole by the Black Mind, young Latter-Day Saint crackers with smooth cheeks, short-sleeved white shirts, and name tags confront nightmarish visions of getting swallowed whole by giant grotesque “Jolly Nigger” coin banks and then find themselves vomited back up as Nubian Islamic Hebrews in turbans and robes selling incense on the subways. If you do not receive an email within 10 minutes, your email address may not be registered, He’s the eccentric who can look at the system and point out the bullshit not as an outsider but as someone who identifies with and loves it in his own way. Coke is for people who like to party, and ayahuasca is for people who like throwing up and shitting themselves and seeing Muhammad flying through space on a jaguar. We’d love your help. He is an assistant professor of religious studies at … The rest is personal accounts of body building, sexual activites, and cheap philosophical conversations with stoners. he spends the vast majority of the book on bullshit and only gets to his experience with the medicine at the very end. Learn about our remote access options, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing | Michael Muhammad Knight | download | B–OK. The San Francisco Chronicle described him as "one of the most necessary and, paradoxically enough, hopeful writers of Barack Obama's America," while The Guardian has described him as "the Hunter S. Thompson of Islamic literature," and his non-fiction work exemplifies the principles of gonzo journalism. I guess it's understandable that these experiences attract different crowds." 'Ya Haqq' for some reason had to be said in every other sentence in the dialogues, sometimes even multiple times in the same sentence. . The beginning reads like an adventure story, the middle reads like a random assortment of excerpts from history textbooks, and the end of the book is exactly the drug-saturated hallucinogenic climax one would expect from the title... except about 9 times scarier. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Refresh and try again. Noté /5. arrogant self-absorbed hipster or astute observer of cultural history? Following Michael Muhammad Knight's spiritual and intellectual paths of exploration never fail to interest me. Find books He calls it being a part of the underground (in Islam) and compares it to those underground people in America who are just as American as anyone else. March 12th 2013 As someone up on here said, it was nothing like what I was expecting. Share. This books is a trip of its own. 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