Pictorial Tribute to Malcolm X
On this day 53 years ago (21 February, 1965), American Muslim civil rights leader Malcolm X (also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) was assassinated in…
Afro Americans
Lost Strain of Rice found in Trinidad
Finding a Lost Strain of Rice and Clues to Slave Cooking The search for the missing grain led to Trinidad and Thomas Jefferson, and now…
“Welcome Back Home”: Lessons From My Recent Rihlah to Senegal
This article was originally posted on Imanwire here I returned recently from a journey embarked upon with a group of beautiful souls to the West…
Muslims Were Banned From the Americas as Early as the 16th Century
Long before today’s anxiety about terror attacks, Spain and England feared that enslaved Africans would be more susceptible to revolt if they were Muslim On…
Roots of Islam in America
This paper is the first installment of a new Nawawi Foundation series titled “Roots of Islam in America,” bringing to light the largely unwritten but…
The origin of Muslims in the Caribbean
“The history of Islam and Muslim people in the Caribbean stretches back over one thousand years, predating European contact by over six centuries. New researches…
Paper: Rethinking the “Bilali Diary” : multiple contexts and Muslim slaves
This paper explores the reasons why Bilali Mohammed, a Muslim slave who lived on Sapelo Island produced his Arabic document, known as the Ben Ali…
Mainstream Islam in the African-American Experience
Muslim slaves – involuntary immigrants, who had been the urban-ruling elite in West Africa – constituted at least 15% of the slave population in North…
The 1815 Islamic settlement on the Hondo River
This is the story of Afro-American Muslims who served on the side of the British the Anglo American war of 1815 who were resettled in…
Muslim roots in Afro American music?
Sylviane Diouf knows her audience might be skeptical, so to demonstrate the connection between Islam and American blues music, she’ll play two recordings: The Muslim…