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Michael Muhammad Knight is a uniquely American Muslim with his own sources: the modern mythologies of the Nation of Islam and Five Percenters, as well as the arguments of Progressive Muslim thinkers for feminism and reform.
In 2008, after "Muslim" becomes a slur in American presidential politics, he travels overseas to reconcile with the larger Islamic tradition. Visiting holy sites in Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Saudi Arabia, he explores both the heretical strands of popular folk Islam—shrines, magic, music, and drugs—and the puritanical, ultra-orthodox Islam of Saudi globalization. His travels culminate at Islam's spiritual center, the holy city of Mecca.
In Journey to the End of Islam, Knight offers a record of his travels through the personal and political, internal and external aspects of religion, searching for a trace of the Divine beneath layers of human construction.
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