Let's Talk About It : Muslim Journeys: Resources

This is a blog of two young Muslim men who, since 2010, have taken an annual road trip to visit thirty mosques across the United States during the month of Ramadan, when Muslims are obligated to fast from sunrise to sunset. Each day, they break their fast at a different mosque while sharing the stories of the Muslim communities they meet though pictures, videos, and texts.

This page on the Documenting the American South website leads to an 1832 account of the life of Omar ibn Said, a Fulbe Muslim slave in North Carolina who wrote an autobiography in Arabic. The site also provides links to other contemporary accounts of Omar, a sample of his handwriting in Maghribi Arabic script, and his portraits.

Archnet is a globally-accessible, intellectual resource focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, visual culture, and conservation issues related to the Muslim world.

This site airs interviews with scholars who participated in the NEH-supported forum Bridging Cultures: Islam and The West, held at the University of Minnesota in February 2011. Scholars discuss cultural and scientific exchanges that have occurred over centuries between Western and Islamic nations and have led to countless advances in literature, philosophy, architecture, mathematics, physics and the visual arts. Produced by Twin Cities Public Television with the University of Minnesota Program in Religious Studies, this video was originally broadcast in November 2011.

The Encyclopædia Iranica is a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The online version offers features to assist scholars looking for specific information or general readers interested in browsing its pages. The Encyclopædia is an international, collaborative project, based at Columbia University in the City of New York.

A visual guide to the different types of veils worn by Muslim women. Remember: not all women wear veils!

The mission of Islamopedia Online is to provide access to news and background analysis on Muslim countries and Islamic topics that are often absent from Western media because of language barriers or lack of familiarity with the country, the issues or players at stake.

My Fellow American is an online film and social media project that calls upon concerned Americans to pledge and spread a message that Muslims are our fellow Americans. It asks people of other backgrounds to pledge, and share a real life story about a Muslim friend, neighbor, or colleague that they admire. Using the power of social media, My Fellow American seeks to change the narrative - from Muslims as the other, to Muslims as our fellow Americans.

This is the first known book-length account of the life of an African Muslim in America. Job Ben Solomon was a noble Fulbe who was sold into slavery in Kent County, Maryland. He was manumitted by philanthropists who paid for his passage to England, where he met with the British royal family and the gentry of the time before being employed by the Royal African Company to help advance English trade in the interior of Africa.

This video introduces The Thousand and One Nights, which presents a world of high Islamic culture, lowbrow comedy, and encounters with the spirit world, all through the stories of the brave Scheherazade, who saves her own life, her husband's sanity, the kingdom, and the happiness of all her readers from the evils of life with her stories.