In Journey to the End of Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight? whose work has led to him being hailed as both the Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson of American Islam? wanders through Muslim countries, navigating between conflicting visions of his religion. Visiting holy sites in Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, and Ethiopia, Knight engages both the puritanical Islam promoted by Saudi globalization and the heretical strands ofpopular folk Islam: shrines, magic, music, and drugs. The conflict of?global" and?local" Islam speaks to Knight's own experience approaching the Islamic world as a uni.Abstract: In Journey to the End of Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight? whose work has led to him being hailed as both the Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson of American Islam? wanders through Muslim countries, navigating between conflicting visions of his religion. Visiting holy sites in Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, and Ethiopia, Knight engages both the puritanical Islam promoted by Saudi globalization and the heretical strands of popular folk Islam: shrines, magic, music, and drugs. The conflict of?global" and?local" Islam speaks to Knight's own experience approaching the Islamic world as a uni