Islam

Reflections on "A Love Supreme," artistic transformation, and the Black Arts Movement.

Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?

Islam in America dates to the founding fathers, says Smithsonian’s religion curator Peter Manseau.

What does it mean to be Muslim in America? And how has the practice of Islam in the U.S. changed over time?

Popular early U.S. tales depicted Muslims as menacing figures in faraway lands or cardboard moral paragons

A new, Pulitzer Prize–winning opera adapts the memoir of Omar ibn Said, an African Muslim who spent much of his life enslaved in North Carolina.

A brief look into Equiano's life reveals that many Black figures were considerably more transnational in their movements and critiques than commonly assumed.

A look into how Malcolm X employed gospel rhetoric to critique the mainstream civil rights movement for catering to white Christianity.

Approaching the 20th anniversary of the attacks, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center faces a reckoning.

Omar ibn Said was captured in Senegal at 37 and enslaved in Charleston. A devout Muslim, he later converted to the Christian faith of his enslavers. Or did he?

In a book and documentary series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a wide-ranging tour of Black religion in America.

The journey of Omar Ibn Said.

Edward Said's Orientalism is still with us forty years after his influential book’s publication, but it is not the same as it was.

Islamophobes today ignore the long history and contributions of Muslim Americans.

For some Lebanese immigrants, religion was a comfort, providing a sense of home in an new world. For others, it was a constant reminder of what was left behind.

How Hollywood portrays religious prayer.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the making of 9/11.

Like his predecessor, the president is decrying anti-Arab and Muslim hatred while helping fuel it. People are refusing to let him get away with this hypocrisy.

While condemning terrorism should be a no-brainer, "moral clarity" has not guaranteed sound U.S. counterterrorism policy.

Requiring rest, rather than work, is still a radical idea.