Muslims In The Dominican Republic
Alhamdulillah (All praise belongs to God). We are a small community in Santiago City, Dominican Republic. We began with four people, in my dental office for Jumma (Friday…
African slavery
Reflections On The Contribution Of Muslims On Guyana’s 52nd Independence Anniversary
Hajji Omar Farouk, President of The International Muslims Organization of Toronto, a Canadian-Guyanese Muslim, was invited to deliver a message on behalf of the Guyanese…
The Shocking ‘Slave Bible’ used by slave masters in the early 1800s in the British West-India Islands
Here Are the Parts That Were Deleted to Manipulate Slaves For centuries, the Bible has been used to spread a message of freedom in Christ. But…
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…
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…
Du’as of the Enslaved: The Malê Slave Rebellion in Bahía, Brazil
Reproduced from Yaqeen Institute, original post here, with permission. In Ramadan of 1835, a group of enslaved African Muslim clerics in Salvador of Bahía, Brazil…
“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…
Caribbean History Before Columbus Needs To Be Taught
Caribbean History “For most of the literate world today, the first contact that the Caribbean had with the outside world was on October 12, 1492…
The Gracious Cuban People
I had always wanted to visit Cuba, since childhood! Not that I haven’t visited many countries or have simply procrastinated my bucket list, but this…
Freedom Come. African Muslim Slaves and The Abolition of Slavery
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was an 1833 Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom abolishing slavery throughout most of the British Empire (with…