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

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 the wake of the September 11 attacks, evangelical American missionaries followed military tanks into Afghanistan and Iraq to convert Muslims.

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.

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