Panel 1- Predecessors and Their Histories | Discussant: Dr. Aminah Al-Deen (George Mason University, BAMI)

Hafsah Nur, Howard University

• I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said’s America by Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst. 2023

Lucy Ballard, Harvard University

• At Their Feet: 50 Black Muslim Elders Share Stories of Faith and Communal Life. edited by Zarinah El-Amin et al., 2022.

Steve Lipson, George Washington University

• Elijah Muhammad and Supreme Literacy by Lydia Magras Muhammad. 2022

11:30am-1:00pm

Race, Gender, and Women | Discussant: Dr. Ahmet Tekelioglu (George Mason University)

Aisha Subhan, Chicago Theological Seminary

• Women and Gender in the Quran by Celene Ibrahim. 2020.

Aleezay Khaliq- George Mason University

• Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam by Sylvia Chan-Malik. 2018

Robert Zayd KiaNouri-Zigmund – George Washington University

• Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam by Sylvia Chan-Malik. 2018

Maryam Sharrieff, Columbia University

• Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam by Sylvia Chan-Malik. 2018

2:15pm-3:30pm

Politics, History, and Contemporary Perspectives | Discussant: Cengiz Sisman (University of Houston)

Asmae Hadidi, Georgia State University

• The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom by Sahar Aziz. 2021

Thomas Abdulkader,  SOAS, University of London

• Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East by Timur Kuran, 2023

Kader Smail, University of Maryland, College Park

• Disenchanting the Caliphate by Hayrettin Yucesoy, 2023.