In this paper, I argue that the reworking of what counts as authority in Islam and the re-imagining of how Islamic knowledge is produced are at the core of the formation of intersectional identities within the Muslim community in North America. This claim is based on an analysis of the discourses and collective actions of organizations such as HEART, Queer Crescent, Muslims for Just Futures, Muslim Abolitionist Futures, and Vigilant Love which cooperate with one another on a cross-section of interrelated issues, such as gendered violence, reproductive justice, gendered Islamophobia, the war on terror, anti-racism, the carceral system, and transformative justice. Such analysis reveals that the worldviews of the activists of the organizations under study are informed by a refusal to uncritically accept the inherited Islamic tradition and an openness towards non-Islamic modes of thinking. Their narratives, life trajectories, and socio-political activism are marked by three key elements: rejection of Sunni supremacy, of patriarchal and heteronormative interpretations of Islam, and of authoritarianism within Muslim communities; commitment to the Islamic practice of iqra (knowledge seeking) as a habit of sitting in doubt, questioning, and learning; and incorporation into Islamic frameworks of theories, concepts, and practices borrowed from non-Islamic sources (non-Muslim feminist, queer, Black, and Indigenous thinkers and movements). Queer Crescent, for example, defines Muslimness as an “expansive, racialized, and self-determined identity” and emphasizes that through collective liberatory practices Muslims can achieve unity and cohesiveness both internally (that is, within themselves) and externally (that is, with others - Muslims and non-Muslims alike). Thus, paying attention to both the social spaces and the cognitive processes through which this cross fertilization between Islamic knowledge and Black, Indigenous, feminist, and queer wisdom takes places is pivotal in understanding shifts in Islamic authority and epistemology and new patterns of allyship between Muslim and non-Muslim actors in the US.