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TAQWACORE: THE BIRTH OF PUNK ISLAM

By Omar MAJEED

EYESTEELFILM - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2009

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ARABIC
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Omar MAJEED
- Writer(s)
- Omar MAJEED
- Cast
- Basim USMANI, Michael Muhammad KNIGHT, Shahjehan KHAN
- Producer(s)
- Mila AUNG-THWIN (EyeSteelFilm), Daniel CROSS (EyeSteelFilm)
- Synopsis
- The word Taqwacore is a combination of hardcore, a genre of punk music, and taqwa, an Arabic word that translates as "piety" or "god-fearing." The first to use the term was writer, journalist, and Muslim convert Michael Muhammad Knight. His novel The Taqwacores, about a group of young Islamic punk rockers, received a storm of recognition among young American Muslims and prompted the formation of various Muslim punk bands.
  The Birth of Punk Islam follows Michael and his kindred spirits as they travel across the U.S. in their green school bus, challenging Muslims and non-Muslims with punchy anthems like Sharia Law in the U.S.A. Their spiritual odyssey then leads them to Pakistan, where they bring punk to the streets of Lahore and reconnect with Islam in a bold new way.