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 Arabi`s 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 it`s certainly a relief from academic propaganda and the obscene banality of simulation.