Quote by: Michael Muhammad Knight

The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk rising from a sea of kufis, Amazing Ayyub still with no shirt, girls scattered throughout – some in hejab, some not and Rabeya in punk-patched burqa doing her thing. But in its randomness it was gorgeous, reflecting an Islam I felt could not happen anywhere else ... If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones: Jehangir and Rabeya and Fasiq and Dawud and Ayyub and even Umar.


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Author Bio


  • NameMichael Muhammad Knight
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist, essayist, and journalist
  • Born1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Novelist; Writer