Journey to the End of Islam

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

Michael Muhammad Knight, called the Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson of American Islam, discusses visiting holy sites in the Middle East in search of a personal relationship to Islam. In his book Journey to the End of Islam, he describes struggling to separate the spiritual from the political Islam in the United States and around the world.

Event: Michael Muhammed Knight will be reading and signing books, followed by a very special performance by The Kominas, as part of Muslim Punk Night at the Bowery
Wednesday, January 6, at 10:00 pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, between Houston and Bleecker
More information here.

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