Research Catalog

Title

Tripping with Allah : Islam, drugs, and writing / by Michael Muhammad Knight.

Author

Knight, Michael Muhammad

Publication

Berkeley, CA : Soft Skull Press, c2013.

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Description

262 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"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 ayahuasca, a psychedelic tea that has been used in the Amazon for centuries. His experience becomes an opportunity to investigate complex issues of drugs, religion, and modernity. Though essential for readers interested in Islam or the growing popularity of ayahuasca, this book is truly about neither Islam nor ayahuasca. Tripping with Allah provides an accessible look into the construction of religion, the often artificial borders dividing these constructions, and the ways in which religion might change in an increasingly globalized world."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Knight, Michael Muhammad
• Muslim men > United States
• Ayahuasca
• Self-actualization (Psychology)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cybertron kids -- Civilization class -- Wisdom elevates exceptional devils -- Islam and equality -- Avicenna and the monolith -- vines and veils -- Coffee consciousness -- Bumblebee -- Church fathers and mothers -- Why did Moses have a hard time civilizing the devil? -- Jehangir Allah -- Scholars and martyrs -- Macho madness -- Initiation -- Between heads -- Snakes of the grafted type -- Al-Najm -- Knowledge build/destroy -- Knowledge born -- Chapel of the chimes.

ISBN

• 159376443X
• 9781593764432

OCLC

• 813541531
• SCSB-12213708

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library