Blue-Eyed Devil A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America

In his quest to find an indigenous American Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight has travelled 20,000 miles in 60 days, squatted in run-down mosques, pursued Muslim romance, been detained at the US/Canadian border and plenty more. In the course of his adventures, Knight sorts out his own relationship to Islam as he journeys from punk provocateur to a recognised voice in the community and watches first-hand the collapse of a liberal Islamic dream. The result is this semi-autobiographical book, chronicling the compellingly multi-faceted landscape of American Islam.

Michael Muhammad Knight is a novelist, essayist, journalist, and scholar. He converted to Islam at sixteen and traveled to Islamabad at seventeen to study at a madrasa. His books include The Taqwacores, Blue-Eyed Devil, Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing, and Why I Am a Salafi. He is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.