Abstract
Punk rock Islam may not a common phrase to hear in society, but it is quickly expanding in popularity and in effectiveness. A fiction book entitled "The Taqwacores" tells the story of faithful Muslims practicing punk rock Islam in their own way. The novel utilizes constittive rhetoric, a concept popularized by Maurice Charland, to create a social movement that is sweeping the world. This paper analyzes the novel using the tenets of constitutive rhetoric and uses social movement theory to understand the implications that a simple book is having upon the world. Punk rock Islam may not be such an uncommon phrase for much longer.
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Recommended Citation
Moore, Margaret
(2013)
"Prayers, Sex, Islam, and Electric Guitars: A Rhetorical Criticism of The Taqwacores,"
Conversations: A Graduate Student Journal of the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology: Vol. 1:
No.
2, Article 4.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/conversations/vol1/iss2/4
