Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam
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Peter Lamborn Wilson proposes a set of heresies, a culture of resistance, that dispels the false image of Islam as monolithic, puritan, and two-dimensional. Here is the story of the African-American noble Drew Ali, the founder of Black Islam” in this country, and of the violent end of his struggle for love, truth, peace, freedom, and justice.” Another essay deals with Satan and Satanism” in Esoteric Islam; and another offers a scathing critique of Authority” and sexual misery in modern Puritanist Islam. The Anti-caliph” evokes a hot mix of Ibn Arabi’s tantric mysticism and the revolutionary teachings of the
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Manufacturer: City Lights Books
Release date: 17 February 1993
ISBN-10 : 0872862755 | ISBN-13: 9780872862753
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Release date: 17 February 1993
ISBN-10 : 0872862755 | ISBN-13: 9780872862753