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Detroit & Dearborn
Plan a Dearborn and Detroit visit around community history, museum collections, and mosque architecture.
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People making things. Places bringing us together. Stories that deserve a closer look.
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Chicago
Use the Loop’s Downtown Islamic Center and a regional mosque directory to plan a realistic Chicago visit.
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Charlotte
Plan a Charlotte visit around the places you need, with a grounded introduction to its Muslim community.
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New York
Plan New York mosque and cultural visits by borough, with official community directories and a Queens museum stop.
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Houston
A specific Houston route linking the MFAH, Ismaili Center and three documented community centers.
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Los Angeles
Trace the Islamic Center of Southern California’s history and explore Islamic art at LACMA.
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The Bay Area
Explore Oakland’s Islamic Cultural Center and Pleasanton’s Muslim Community Center through their public programs.
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shape America.
Discover the people, institutions, and ideas behind contributions to American life.
The reading list
Three stories to stay with you.
HistoryA life preserved in Arabic
Read Omar ibn Said’s 1831 manuscript alongside its translations and North Carolina history.
Books & storytellingMaking room on the bookshelf
From Amina’s Voice to basketball comics, Hena Khan gives young American readers Muslim characters with interests, choices, and everyday lives.
Science & engineeringThe engineer behind a changing skyline
Read Chicago’s towers through their structural systems, with credit to Khan, Bruce Graham, and the teams who built them.
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MichiganDetroit & Dearborn
Plan a Dearborn and Detroit visit around community history, museum collections, and mosque architecture.
MassachusettsBoston
Explore the ISBCC’s architecture, Greater Boston’s community histories, and Islamic art at the MFA.
CaliforniaThe Bay Area
Explore Oakland’s Islamic Cultural Center and Pleasanton’s Muslim Community Center through their public programs.
People & enterprise
People & business Meet the people making things happen.
Founder storyFrom engineering to American manufacturing
How Shahid Khan’s Illinois engineering career and automotive component business became part of American manufacturing.
The sisters behind VELA
Read the Atik sisters' published account of building a scarf brand and responding to customer expectations.
Turning calligraphy into objects for the home
How Syed Rahman's documented business story connects metalwork, home interiors, and Muslim American customers.
Art, books & objects
Arts & culture Keep your curiosity going.
Museum guideLook closely at Cleveland’s collection
A close-looking guide to a Qur’an folio and luster ceramics, using Cleveland’s public collection records.
Discover Daybreak Press
Explore Rabata's publishing project through its catalog, editorial team, and manuscript guidelines.
A fresh reading list
This month on Muslim Folk.
Art
Dar al-Islam and the adobe architecture of Abiquiu
Hassan Fathy’s New Mexico mosque connects Muslim community-building, earthen construction, and a changing vision for life in the American Southwest.
Business
Shahid Khan: the manufacturing story behind a sports owner
How Shahid Khan’s Illinois engineering career and automotive component business became part of American manufacturing.
History
Omar ibn Said and the Arabic autobiography written in North Carolina
Read Omar ibn Said’s 1831 manuscript alongside its translations and North Carolina history.
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