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…
African Muslims
African Muslims in Bondage: Realities, Memories, and Legacies
Between the early 1500s and the 1860s. West African Muslims from Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria were…
The Mandingo Muslims Of Trinidad
The Story of Muhammad Sisei (1788 – 1838) The following story has its roots in Manding Muslim civilization which dominated West Africa for three hundred…
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…
UK Appeal launched to retain Muslim portrait
Access the original article in the UK Independent here William Hoare’s early eighteenth century portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, a Gambian prince who was sold…
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…
American scholar visited the region on fact finding tour.
“Wherever sugar went, slavery followed it like a parasite.” Dr. Umar Faruq Abd’Allah, scholar-in-residence at the Nawawi Foundation,Chicago, U.S.A. Between March 26 and April 7,…
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…
Book: Black crescent: the experience and legacy of African Muslims in the Americas
Gomez, Michael A. Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 385 pp. This book, Black…