Muslims in America: A forgotten history
UNPACK THE PAST Features|History For more than 300 years, Muslims have influenced the story of the US – from the ‘founding fathers’ to blues music today. By Sylviane A Diouf Published […]
History of Slavery and Concubinage in the Ottoman Empire (1299–1922)
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Abstract Slavery was a central institution in the Ottoman Empire from its 14th-century origins until its early 20th-century dissolution. This article provides […]
Muslims in America: A forgotten history
UNPACK THE PAST Features|History For more than 300 years, Muslims have influenced the story of the US – from the ‘founding fathers’ to blues music today. By Sylviane A Diouf Published […]
Video of Berkley Center: Islam, Human Rights, and the Secular
Talal Asad and Abdullahi An-Naim This discussion is very helpful and hopeful at the same time, every segment of this discussion needs an open intellectual discussion, for example; slavery in […]
History of slavery in the Muslim world
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search This article is about the history of slavery in Muslim countries. For other uses, see Islam and slavery (disambiguation). Part of a […]
The slave ship in a London courtyard
(Image credit: Tim Bowditch) By Melissa Chemam13th October 2022 A new installation of 140 blocks of wood summons up a forgotten history, writes Melissa Chemam. Laid out on the stone courtyard […]
My father’s family kept slaves – and he defended it. Acknowledging it matters
Amid a rise of laws forbidding discussions of racist histories, sharing our ancestors’ shameful wrongdoings is more urgent than ever Maud Newton; Wed 14 Sep 2022 Source: The Guardian My […]
The Holy Quran about Slavery
Source: Wikipedia Alms-tax is only for the poor and the needy, for those employed to administer it, for those whose hearts are attracted ˹to the faith˺, for ˹freeing˺ slaves, for […]
Understanding Islam – a brief introduction to its past and present in the United States
For people who would like to learn more about Islam, The Conversation is publishing a series of articles, available on our website or as six emails delivered every other day, written by […]
From Thomas Jefferson’s own family, a call to take down his memorial
Source: Yahoo News A direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson has called for the memorial to the third president to be removed from Washington, D.C. Writing in the New York Times […]
Bible underscores Lincoln’s belief he was to end slavery
Source: Associated Press By JOHN O’CONNOR SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A Bible given to Abraham Lincoln in the final months of the Civil War ties together the 16th president’s budding […]
Prophet Muhammad was the first person in history to clearly assert racial equality
Prophet Muhammad was the first person in history to clearly assert racial equality. He said in his Final Sermon: “An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab… a white has […]
PBS Video: Slavery in USA; Islam and Christianity
CBS Video: The Duality of President Thomas Jefferson The Holy Quran and the Seventh Century Arabian Metaphors Racism, Slavery, History, and Islam Slavery – An Anathema to Humanity and Islam Concubines and the Holy Quran […]
Muslims arrived in America 400 years ago as part of the slave trade and today are vastly diverse
Source: The Conversation By Saeed Ahmed Khan; Senior Lecturer, Wayne State University Most Americans say they don’t know a Muslim and that much of what they understand about Islam is from the […]
Why dark-skinned black girls like me aren’t getting married
Source: The Guardian Dream McClinton puts herself on the line to report Black women in the US marry less than others – and the numbers are even lower for darker skinned […]
To Appreciate Freedom, Remember Slavery
Source: Wall Street Journal By Ruth R. Wisse March 29, 2018 7:00 p.m. ET Re-enacting slavery is not everyone’s idea of a good time, but this is how Jews celebrate […]
Confederate statue pulled down in North Carolina
Source: BBC News A monument to pro-slavery forces is destroyed, in the wake of clashes in Charlottesville. No arrests have been reported in connection with the incident in Durham, North […]
Muslims Were Banned From the Americas as Early as the 16th Century
Source: Smithsonian.com Long before today’s anxiety about terror attacks, Spain and England feared that enslaved Africans would be more susceptible to revolt if they were Muslim (Wikimedia Commons) By Andrew […]
‘Sold like cows and goats’: India’s slave brides
Aljazeera.com: by Liz Gooch, Mary Ann Jolley — Thousands of girls and women in India are sold into marriage and often face a lifetime of abuse and hardship. Live submit The first time Muklesha was sold, she was just 12 years old. Her buyer was a man in his 70s. […]