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Ahmed Zewail: making chemical change observable
How a Caltech laboratory opened a window onto molecular motion, and why instruments and collaboration matter to the story.
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Aziz Sancar: understanding how cells repair DNA
A North Carolina research career reveals how basic science, teaching, and cultural exchange can reinforce one another.
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The Bernards mosque case and the rules for sharing a town
A New Jersey congregation’s zoning dispute produced permission to build and changes to local religious-land-use procedures.
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Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir: changing who gets to stay in the game
Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir, the campaign to change basketball’s headgear rule, and her later coaching work.
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Farouk El-Baz: teaching Apollo astronauts to read the Moon
NASA training photographs reveal a geologist’s contribution to Apollo and a later career applying space observations on Earth.
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Fazlur Rahman Khan: the structure behind the Chicago 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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Hassan v. New York: challenging suspicion built around religion
New Jersey Muslim plaintiffs challenged NYPD surveillance and secured a court ruling allowing their claims to proceed, followed by a negotiated settlement.
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A half-inch beard and a unanimous religious-liberty ruling
Holt v. Hobbs tested whether a prison could justify denying one Muslim prisoner a limited religious accommodation.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and a classroom beyond the basketball court
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s outdoor education work, public identity, and partnerships beyond basketball.
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Rana el Kaliouby: emotion AI and the questions it raises
A Massachusetts research and business story about facial analysis, context, consent, and the limits of technological claims.
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Muslim Americans and the work of making rights real
Five histories connect public argument, job access, prison religious exercise, mosque zoning, and challenges to surveillance.
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Muslim roots in American history
Five routes into Muslim American history through manuscripts, community institutions, migration, and the work of preserving public memory.
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Samantha Elauf and the job interview that reached the Supreme Court
A Tulsa teenager’s hiring case changed how the Supreme Court explained religious accommodation under federal employment law.
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Muslims who helped shape American science and technology
Five stories connect laboratories, skyscrapers, space exploration, and computing through the work of Muslim American scientists and engineers.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim and the work of supporting students in Atlanta
The Atlanta student-support organization founded by Shareef, Delicia, and Qaadirah Abdur-Rahim, with current hiatus context.
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Muslim Americans in sports: achievement, access, and life beyond the game
Five Muslim American sporting stories connecting achievement with public voice, participation, coaching, and education.
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Migration and Muslim institution building after 1965
Family reunification, professional migration, and institutions that grew across generations.
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Abdul Rahman Ibrahima: forty years in Mississippi
A West African scholar and military leader, his wife Isabella, and the struggle to leave slavery.
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Alexander Russell Webb and Islam at the 1893 Parliament
A journalist, a Chicago address, and an ambitious nineteenth-century Muslim publishing project.
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Ayuba Suleiman Diallo’s journey from Maryland captivity to a London portrait
Follow the surviving portrait, biography, and correspondence of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo across the Atlantic.
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Bilali Mohammed’s manuscript and the Muslim history of Sapelo Island
A guide to Bilali Mohammed, his surviving Arabic manuscript, and the family memories recorded on Georgia’s coast.
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One Detroit building, two communities, and the history of Masjid Wali Muhammad
Explore the former Workmen’s Circle building that became Temple No. 1 and later Masjid Wali Muhammad.
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African Muslims and the written record of early America
The West African lives and American experiences behind surviving manuscripts and family memories.
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Ibtihaj Muhammad, from Olympic saber to The Proudest Blue
Follow Ibtihaj Muhammad’s Rio team bronze and the picture book she made with S. K. Ali and Hatem Aly.
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Nur-Allah and the Muslim community history of Indianapolis
From meetings in a cleaner's shop to a congregation preserving its own history.
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The Islamic Center of Washington and its 1957 dedication
Explore the architecture, diplomatic setting, and archival record of Washington’s Islamic Center.
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Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an and the history carried by a two-volume book
Trace Jefferson’s 1764 English Qur’an through its purchase, library history, and later public use.
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Malcolm X’s changing public life, from Omaha to Harlem
Follow Malcolm X’s family roots, Nation of Islam work, 1964 transformation, and surviving places and records.
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The Mother Mosque of America and the families who built it
Explore the Cedar Rapids building, its restoration, and the community history behind a national landmark.
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From campus prayer rooms to a national Muslim organization
The student networks and Indiana institution behind the emergence of ISNA.
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Muhammad Ali’s name, faith, and public life
Trace Ali’s Muslim identity through his boxing career, refusal of induction, personal writing, and museum objects.
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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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How Quincy’s Muslim families built a New England institution
Explore the Islamic Center of New England’s roots in family networks, fundraising, and the South Street mosque.
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Preserving Muslim American history for the public
A practical starting point for finding museum objects, oral histories, and community archives without confusing access with permission.
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Ross, North Dakota, and the Muslim cemetery on the prairie
Follow the homesteading families, oral histories, and memorial building at the Assyrian Muslim Cemetery.
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Warith Deen Mohammed and the work of community transformation
How changes in leadership, institutions, and local congregations reshaped a major African American Muslim community.