The Long Islam, Part 2: Praying Through the Peculiar Institution (1800–1865)
Part Two is where that argument's abstraction ceases. It turns to four documented figures, Omar ibn Sa'id, Bilali Muhammad,
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The Long Islam, Part 1: Praying Through the Peculiar Institution (1800–1865)
Before a single ship crossed the Atlantic, West African Islamic education had already solved the problem slavery would later
When My Hands Were Unable to Reach You
With grief and yearning for memories of a past that exists only in fragments of undestroyed photographs, Tunisian poet
Martyrs & Miracles: The Sapelo Square Muharram Series
Where do you stand on the side of justice? Today is Ashura, the 10th of Muharram. It holds two of
Before the Republic: Islam and the Making of Black America (Essay One – Pt. 3/3)
The story of Islam in pre-revolutionary America is also, necessarily, a story about what America chose not to remember.
Before the Republic: Islam and the Making of Black America (Essay One – Pt. 2/3)
Omar ibn Said’s life story is the only surviving autobiography of an enslaved African in America written in Arabic.
Before the Republic: Islam and the Making of Black America
His name was Bilali Muhammad. And the island where he prayed, fasted, and wrote was called Sapelo.
From Jinn to Noor: Water, Memory, and the Many Worlds of Nijla Mu’min (Part Three)
In Part Two, we followed the fifteen-year struggle to bring Noor, a story of Black-Palestinian love, to a world