The African American Islamic Experience: Memory, Preservation, and the Untold Historical Narrative of the American Islamic Experience

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

This panel will explore the development of Islam in the African American experience. Panelist will explore topics such as the evolution of the masjid in American cities to the oldest and largest segment of American Muslim communities—Muslim African America. It will examine the role that the masjid, as a sacred and public space, and as a relatively new urban-American institution. The African American Islamic community have established museums, preservation projects, published works and lectures to establish a historical perspective that reconciles the good as well as the despoiled ideals of the Islamic, African, and African American historical traditions.

Sub Unit

• 101st Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Chair

• Latif A Tarik, ASALH Memeber

Individual Presentations

• Public Space, Muslims and the Urban Masjid: Some Historical and Contemporary Developments - Mikal Naeem Nash, ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE,

• America's Other Muslims: Readings and New Insights into Muslim Slaves Manuscripts and the emergence of Black Islamic Thought in America - Muhammad Fraser-Rahim, PhD Student, Howard University

• Public History: The Making of the American Islamic Museum, Curation, Preservation, and the African American Islamic Tradition - Amir Muhammad, American Islamic Heritage Museum

Commentator

• ASALH Audience, .