As Islam now penetrated as a creed, it continued to thrive in cultural spaces. The iconic statures of Malcolm and Muhammad Ali continued to defy all odds to erase them, and Islam continued to be invoked through hip hop...
Dr. Sherman Jackson contends in his book, Islam and the Blackamerican, that Islam owes its momentum in America to the phenomenon of “Black Religion,” a God-centered holy protest against anti-black racism...
While many believe that Black Sunnis only came out of a post Nation of Islam conversion, Black Sunni communities existed well before. Through the early 20th century, Sh Daoud Faisal led the Muslim Mission and the Bronx...
The Quran in chains looks at the painful stories of Enslaved Muslim Africans brought to these shores trying to maintain their faith and their humanity simultaneously in a land that sought to rob them of both. The...
While many start the story of Islam in America with the Enslaved Muslims brought from Africa, Islam has rich early interactions through luminaries like Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad and Mansa Musa. Knowing this history...
We’re anti-evil, anti-oppression, anti-lynching. You can’t be anti- those things unless you’re also anti- the oppressor and the lyncher. You can’t be anti-slavery and pro-slavemaster; you can’t be anti-crime and pro...
Introduction Today, in America, we see our government and its agencies separating children from their mothers in what seems to be a weekly occurrence. The tragic stories keep pouring in of children no longer recognizing...
Najwa Awad, LSCW-C and Sarah Sultan, LPC, LMHC give an introduction to their series, Trauma: Your Lord Has Not Forsaken You, and discuss the unique framework through which they connect clinical and spiritual psychology...
How can we align religious life with human rights? What role should spiritual leaders play in promoting human rights? And what can everyday people of faith do to defend human rights and encourage mutual respect between...
Note Find your spiritual personality by taking our quiz here. Abstract Having a sense of belonging to a faith community has a strong impact on an individual’s conviction and commitment to belief. Among the first signs...
Abstract As countries around the globe frantically search for a solution to the current environmental crisis, solutions deep-rooted in the Islamic tradition are rarely offered. Islam has at its core multiple...
Abstract In the time of the Prophet ﷺ, Muslims provided protection to asylum-seekers and the Ansar of Medina treated the Muhajirs, who were essentially refugees, like brothers. During the...