Book Details
Format
Kindle
Language
English
Published
Dec 25, 2014
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
ISBN-10
1322529272
ISBN-13
9781322529271
Description
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 Quran, subjecting Islam's holiest scripture to literary experimentation.
William S. Burroughs vs. the Quran 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.
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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 Quran, subjecting Islam's holiest scripture to literary experimentation.
William S. Burroughs vs. the Quran 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.
"
Genres
Biography
Action & Adventure
Religion & Spirituality