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 Arabis tantric mysticism and the revolutionary teachings of the Assassins. The title essay Sacred Drift roves through the history and poetics of Sufi travel from Ibn Khaldun to Rimbaud in Abyssinia to the Situationists. A Romantic view of Islam is taken to radical extremes; the exotic may not be True but its certainly a relief from academic propaganda and the obscene banality of simulation. “This is my brand of Islam: insurrectionary elegant dangerous suffused with light a search for poetic facts a donation from and to the tradition of spiritual anarchy.” Hakim Bey “Peter Lamborn Wilson in his book Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam offers an interesting window into the early evolution of Islamic ideas among African Americans.” Abbas Milani New Republic Peter Lamborn Wilson lives in New York and works for Semiotext(e) magazine Pacifica Radio and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. A long decade in the Orient (1968-1981) inspires his writing including The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry and Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy. He also investigates Celtic psychoactive plants in his book Ploughing the Clouds which is also published by City Lights Publishers.
Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam
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