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Black Mecca to Black Medina: Black Women Find Beauty in Islam

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Dr. Jamillah Karim is an award-winning author, lecturer, and blogger and a former associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Spelman College. As both an academic and a participant in Muslim communities, Dr. Karim has observed and documented the ways in which African American Muslim women love and live Islam, navigating Islamic gender rules and norms in light of family, commun…