Definitions

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  • noun music A form of punk music or hip-hop that deals with Islamic culture or issues

Etymologies

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taqwa +‎ -core, coined in Michael Muhammad Knight's 2003 novel, The Taqwacores, and later applied to real music inspired by it.

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Examples

  • Muslim punkers call their brand of music taqwacore — a blend of the Arabic word for piety, taqwa, and "hard-core," the English word for musicians who want to be taken very seriously.

    Slam Dancing for Allah 2007

  • For example, the Kominas, a Punjabi taqwacore punk band, sport mohawks and tattoos as they thrash on stage singing Suicide Bomb the Gap.

    Wajahat Ali: The Redefining of Muslim Art by The Obama Generation 2009

  • Labels: punk muslims, taqwacore posted by dubjay at 1:45 PM

    Archive 2008-12-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • Labels: punk muslims, taqwacore posted by dubjay at 1:45 PM

    Taqwacores Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • By the time everyone gathered in Park City, Utah for the festival, it felt like a mini taqwacore conference.

    Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead 2010

  • The title of the Kominas album, Wild Nights in Guantanamo Bay already gives something of an insight of what the songs might be. taqwacore movement.

    Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead Guest/USA 2009

  • In the first part of the film, Knight organizes a taqwacore tour of the U.S., bringing the Kominas, Vancouver-based Islamic riot-grrl trio Secret Trial Five, and a shapeshifting crew on the road.

    RaceWire 2009

  • Yusef is an engineering student in Abercrombie & Fitch t-shirts, a mostly straightedge Sunni Pakistani American, a "Hey, Little Rich Boy," the chronicler of the taqwacore (taqwa = piety) experience, maybe a poseur, definitely a Muslim with a crisis of faith.

    Bookslut 2009

  • I feel that taqwacore is still in the process of defining itself, but the name is derived from the words "taqwa" (God-conscioussnes), and hardcore.

    Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead Guest/USA 2009

  • Revolution "), which figures in the nascent taqwacore, or Islamic punk, scene; Subhi Jasser, who moved to Chicago with his family in 2009 after he'd been kidnapped by militants in Baghdad and his house raided by U.S. soldiers; Ray Hanania, a Christian Palestinian-American columnist, radio host, and comedian who's also a Vietnam vet and Cicero's town spokesman; and

    Chicago Reader 2010

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