William S Burroughs Vs The Qur An
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William S Burroughs Vs The Qur An
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Author : Michael Muhammad Knight
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2012-04-17
William S Burroughs Vs The Qur An written by Michael Muhammad Knight and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-17 with Religion categories.
When Michael Muhammad Knight sets out to write the definitive biography of his “Anarcho-Sufi” hero and mentor, writer Peter Lamborn Wilson (aka Hakim Bey), he makes a startling discovery that changes everything. At the same time that he grows disillusioned with his idol, Knight finds that his own books have led to American Muslim youths making a countercultural idol of him, placing him on the same pedestal that he had given Wilson. In an attempt to forge his own path, Knight pledges himself to an Iranian Sufi order that Wilson had almost joined, attempts to write the Great American Queer Islamo-Futurist Novel, and even creates his own mosque in the wilderness of West Virginia. He also employs the “cut-up” writing method of Bey’s friend, the late William S. Burroughs, to the Qur’an, subjecting Islam’s holiest scripture to literary experimentation. William S. Burroughs vs. the Qur’an is the struggle of a hero-worshiper without heroes and the meeting of religious and artistic paths, the quest of a writer as spiritual seeker.
William S Burroughs
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Author : Barry Miles
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-02-06
William S Burroughs written by Barry Miles and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Authoritative biography of cult writer and author of NAKED LUNCH, William Burroughs (1914-1997). It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.' This assessment holds true today. No-one since then has taken such risks in their writing, developed such individual radical political ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media - Burroughs has written novels, memoirs, technical manuals and poetry, he has painted, made collages, taken thousands of photographs, made visual scrapbooks, produced hundreds of hours of experimental tapes, acted in movies and recorded more CDs than most rock groups. Made a cult figure by the publication of NAKED LUNCH, Burroughs was a mentor to the 1960s youth culture. Underground papers referred to him as 'Uncle Bill' and he ranked alongside Bob Dylan and the Beatles, Buckminster Fuller and R.D. Laing as one of the 'gurus' of the youth movement who might just have the secret of the universe. Based upon extensive research, this biography paints a new portrait of Burroughs, making him real to the reader and showing how he was perceived by his contemporaries in all his guises - from icily distant to voluble drunk. It shows how his writing was very much influenced by his life situation and by the people he met on his travels around America and Europe. He was, beneath it all, a man torn by emotions: his guilt at not visiting his doting mother; his despair at not responding to reconciliation attempts from his father; his distance from his brother; the huge void that separated him from his son; and above all his killing of his wife, Joan Vollmer.
Call Me Burroughs
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Author : Barry Miles
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-01-28
Call Me Burroughs written by Barry Miles and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-28 with History categories.
Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs wrote novels, memoirs, technical manuals, and poetry. He painted, made collages, took thousands of photographs, produced hundreds of hours of experimental recordings, acted in movies, and recorded more CDs than most rock bands. Burroughs was the original cult figure of the Beat Movement, and with the publication of his novel Naked Lunch, which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a guru to the 60s youth counterculture. In Call Me Burroughs, biographer and Beat historian Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be published in a quarter century-and the first one to chronicle the last decade of Burroughs's life and examine his long-term cultural legacy. Written with the full support of the Burroughs estate and drawing from countless interviews with figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and Burroughs himself, Call Me Burroughs is a rigorously researched biography that finally gets to the heart of its notoriously mercurial subject.
Muhammad Forty Introductions
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Author : Michael Muhammad Knight
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2019-01-08
Muhammad Forty Introductions written by Michael Muhammad Knight and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with Religion categories.
"More than a survey of the prophet’s life and times, this book is an introduction to the stunning diversity of Islam and the ways in which Muslims think, dream, and make Muhammad into their very own prophet." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) He ranks among the most venerated historical figures in the world, as well as among the most contested. Muhammad: Forty Introductions offers a distinct and nuanced take on the life and teachings of the prophet Muhammad, using a traditional genre of Islamic literature called the forty hadiths collection. Hadiths are the reported sayings and actions of Muhammad that have been collected by the tens of thousands throughout Islamic history. There is a tradition in which Muslim scholars take from this vast textual ocean to compile their own smaller collections of forty hadiths, an act of curation that allows them to present their particular understanding of Muhammad’s legacy and the essential points of Islam. Here, Michael Muhammad Knight offers forty narrations that provide windows into the diverse ways in which Muslims envision Muhammad. He also examines his own relationship to Muslim traditions while exploring such topics as law, mysticism, sectarianism, gender, and sexuality. By revealing the Prophet to be an ongoing construction, he carefully unravels notions about Islam’s center and margins.
Transhumanism
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Author : David Livingstone
language : en
Publisher: David Livingstone
Release Date : 2015-09-02
Transhumanism written by David Livingstone and has been published by David Livingstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-02 with History categories.
Transhumanism is a recent movement that extols man’s right to shape his own evolution, by maximizing the use of scientific technologies, to enhance human physical and intellectual potential. While the name is new, the idea has long been a popular theme of science fiction, featured in such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, the Terminator series, and more recently, The Matrix, Limitless, Her and Transcendence. However, as its adherents hint at in their own publications, transhumanism is an occult project, rooted in Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, and derived from the Kabbalah, which asserts that humanity is evolving intellectually, towards a point in time when man will become God. Modeled on the medieval legend of the Golem and Frankenstein, they believe man will be able to create life itself, in the form of living machines, or artificial intelligence. Spearheaded by the Cybernetics Group, the project resulted in both the development of the modern computer and MK-Ultra, the CIA’s “mind-control” program. MK-Ultra promoted the “mind-expanding” potential of psychedelic drugs, to shape the counterculture of the 1960s, based on the notion that the shamans of ancient times used psychoactive substances, equated with the “apple” of the Tree of Knowledge. And, as revealed in the movie Lucy, through the use of “smart drugs,” and what transhumanists call “mind uploading,” man will be able to merge with the Internet, which is envisioned as the end-point of Kabbalistic evolution, the formation of a collective consciousness, or Global Brain. That awaited moment is what Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google, refers to as The Singularly. By accumulating the total of human knowledge, and providing access to every aspect of human activity, the Internet will supposedly achieve omniscience, becoming the “God” of occultism, or the Masonic All-Seeing Eye of the reverse side of the American dollar bill.
A History Of Conversion To Islam In The United States Volume 1
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Author : Patrick D. Bowen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-08-17
A History Of Conversion To Islam In The United States Volume 1 written by Patrick D. Bowen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-17 with Social Science categories.
In A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1: White American Muslims before 1975, Patrick D. Bowen offers an account of white Muslims and Sufis and the movements they produced between 1800 and 1975.
William S Burroughs Ve Kur An Kerim
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Author : Michael Muhammad Knight
language : tr
Publisher: altikirkbes, Altıkırkbeş Yayın
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William S Burroughs Ve Kur An Kerim written by Michael Muhammad Knight and has been published by altikirkbes, Altıkırkbeş Yayın this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Religion categories.
"Dünyanın sonu Kur'an-ı Kerim'in intihar notudur" der, Muhammad Knight -kaldı ki haksız da değildir! Kâbe'nin, İslamiyet'in Disney Land'i olduğunu dile getirirken aslında gerçek Müslümanın içinde hissettiği acıya da dokunur: İnşaat sektörünce parsellenmiş bir Beyt'ullah, Muhammed Resulün zorluklarla sınanmamızı istediği uzun Hac yolculukları ile yan yana gelemez elbet! William Burroughs'un "İslam Anonim Şirketi" ifadesini Knight "İslami Koka Kola" fikriyle genişletir. Öte yandan Hakim Bey'in tradisyonellerden çalıp sitüasyonistçe saptırdığı irfana kattıklarını alır ve sokak punkına bular. Evet karşınızda başka bir kusmuk var, karşı-kültür eklektiği bir İslam! Muhammad Knight öldürülmediğine göre yazdıkları istediği kıvama hala gelememiş. Belki Müslümanlar da biraz deli sayıklaması yerine derinlikli bir saldırıyı tercih ediyorlardır. Ya da sadece Danimarka yahut Fransa'da yaşayan karikatüristlerin Muhammed çizimlerine takıldılar.
Sufi Deleuze
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Author : Michael Muhammad Knight
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2023-02-07
Sufi Deleuze written by Michael Muhammad Knight and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-07 with Religion categories.
“There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,” Deleuze and Guattari write in their final collaboration, What Is Philosophy? Their claim that Christianity “secretes” atheism “more than any other religion,” however, reflects the limits of their archive. Theological projects seeking to engage Deleuze remain embedded within Christian theologies and intellectual histories; whether they embrace, resist, or negotiate with Deleuze’s atheism, the atheism in question remains one extracted from Christian theology, a Christian atheism. In Sufi Deleuze, Michael Muhammad Knight offers an intervention, engaging Deleuzian questions and themes from within Islamic tradition. Even if Deleuze did not think of himself as a theologian, Knight argues, to place Deleuze in conversation with Islam is a project of comparative theology and faces the challenge of any comparative theology: It seemingly demands that complex, internally diverse traditions can speak as coherent, monolithic wholes. To start from such a place would not only defy Islam’s historical multiplicity but also betray Deleuze’s model of the assemblage, which requires attention to not only the organizing and stabilizing tendencies within a structure but also the points at which a structure resists organization, its internal heterogeneity, and unpredictable “lines of flight.” A Deleuzian approach to Islamic theology would first have to affirm that there is no such thing as a universal “Islamic theology” that can speak for all Muslims in all historical settings, but rather a multiplicity of power struggles between major and minor forces that contest each other over authenticity, authority, and the making of “orthodoxy.” The discussions in Sufi Deleuze thus highlight Islam’s extraordinary range of possibilities, not only making use of canonically privileged materials such as the Qur’an and major hadith collections, but also exploring a variety of marginalized resources found throughout Islam that challenge the notion of a singular “mainstream” interpretive tradition. To say it in Deleuze’s vocabulary, Islam is a rhizome.
Why I Am A Salafi
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Author : Michael Muhammad Knight
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2015-08-11
Why I Am A Salafi written by Michael Muhammad Knight and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-11 with Religion categories.
The Salafi movement invests supreme Islamic authority in the precedents of the Salaf, the first three generations of Muslims, who represent a “Golden Age” from which all subsequent eras can only decline. In Why I Am a Salafi, Michael Muhammad Knight confronts the problem of origins, questioning the possibility of accessing pure Islam through its canonical texts. Why I Am a Salafi is also a confrontation of Knight’s own origins as a Muslim. Reconsidering Salafism, Knight explores the historical processes that informed Islam as he once knew it, having converted to a Salafi vision of Islam in 1994. In the decades since, he has drifted away from Salafism in favor of an alternative Islam that celebrates the freaks, misfits, and heretical innovators. What happens to Islam when everything’s up for grabs, and can an anything-goes Islam allow space for reputedly intolerant Salafism? In Why I Am a Salafi, Knight explores not only Salafism’s valorization of the origins, but takes the Salafi project further than its advocates are willing to go, and reflects upon the consequences of surrendering the origins forever.
Exploring The Multitude Of Muslims In Europe
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-03-12
Exploring The Multitude Of Muslims In Europe written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-12 with Social Science categories.
In Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe, the fourteen collected articles present conceptualisations, productions and explorations of the multitudes of Muslims in Europe, echoing and honouring Jørgen S. Nielsen’s work on the challenges for Muslim communities in Europe.