Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam

by Peter Lamborn Wilson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872862755
• ISBN13: 9780872862753
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"