Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Muhammad Knight

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Michael Muhammad Knight.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Michael Muhammad Knight

Michael Muhammad Knight is an American novelist, essayist, and journalist. His writings are popular among American Muslim youth. The San Francisco Chronicle described him as "one of the most necessary and, paradoxically enough, hopeful writers of Barack Obama's America," while The Guardian has described him as "the Hunter S. Thompson of Islamic literature," and his non-fiction work exemplifies the principles of gonzo journalism. Publishers Weekly describes him as "Islam's gonzo experimentalist." Within the American Muslim community, he has earned a reputation as an ostentatious cultural provocateur.

Allah is too big and open for my deen to be small and closed. — © Michael Muhammad Knight
Allah is too big and open for my deen to be small and closed.
If Allah wants to send me a message, he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters.
If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones.
The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk rising from a sea of kufis, Amazing Ayyub still with no shirt, girls scattered throughout – some in hejab, some not and Rabeya in punk-patched burqa doing her thing. But in its randomness it was gorgeous, reflecting an Islam I felt could not happen anywhere else ... If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones: Jehangir and Rabeya and Fasiq and Dawud and Ayyub and even Umar.
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