# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-muhammad-knight
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:20:03.036Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-muhammad-knight"
name: "Michael Muhammad Knight"
slug: "michael-muhammad-knight"
description: "Michael Muhammad Knight is an American author, scholar, and convert to Islam. His writings are popular among American Muslim youth. The San Francisco Chronicle described him as \"one of the most necessary and, paradoxically enough, hopeful writers of Barack Obama's America,\" while The Guardian has described him as \"the Hunter S. Thompson of Islamic literature,\" and his non-fiction work exemplifies the principles of gonzo journalism. Publishers Weekly describes him as \"Islam's gonzo experimentalist.\" Within the American Muslim community, he has earned a reputation as an ostentatious cultural provocateur."
tagline: "American novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Muhammad_Knight.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1977"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.64482
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/MM_Knight"
    handle:    "MM_Knight"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3163821/"
    handle:    "nm3163821"
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "مايكل محمد نايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Muhammad_Knight"
    title: "Michael Muhammad Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Muhammad_Knight"
    title: "Michael Muhammad Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Muhammad_Knight"
    title: "Michael Muhammad Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Muhammad_Knight"
    title: "Michael Muhammad Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Muhammad_Knight"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3499579"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134651"
    title: "Michael Muhammad Knight"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump