North Africa

Fatima al-Fihriya

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fatima al-Fihriya فاطمة الفهرية Born c. 800 CEKairouan (present-day Tunisia) Died c. 880 CEFez (present-day Morocco) Known for Sponsoring construction of the Al-Qarawiyyin Mosque Fatima bint Muhammad al-Fihriya al-Qurashiyya (Arabic: فاطمة بنت محمد […]

Muslim migrants around the world

ByStephanie KramerandYunping Tong Who are migrants? Roughly 80 million international migrants are Muslim, representing 29% of all people living outside their country of birth. By comparison, Muslims were about 25% of the world’s total population in 2020, making Muslim identity a little more common among migrants than in the overall […]

The Ahmadiyya in Ghana (West Africa): Local Initiatives in a Trans-National Muslim Movement

John Hanson | Final Conference of the Gerda Henkel Foundation Special Programme “Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements” The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is a transnational missionary movement with origins in late 19th century British India and a global contemporary presence. In the 1920s, the Ahmadiyya established a mission […]