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  2. Islam in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Muslim girl writing her exam in Africa Islam in Africa is the continent's second most widely professed faith behind Christianity . Africa was the first continent into which Islam spread from the Middle East , during the early 7th century CE .

  3. Nine Parts of Desire - Wikipedia

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    The publication Resources for Feminist Research is critical of the book. The publication argued that the work has "presuppositions, stereotypes, distortions and disingenuous paradoxes" because she presents the women in her book "as the wisdom of 'Muslim' authorities" and does so "without qualification". [10]

  4. Muslim women in sport - Wikipedia

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    Abdul-Qaadir was the 2009 Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year, scored over 3,000 points during high school (a state record for both boys and girls), and was named to the C-USA All-Academic team during her career at the University of Memphis. [17] Kaljo was a JUCO All-American player who only began wearing the hijab in her late 20s. [18]

  5. Islamic marital practices - Wikipedia

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    When it comes to Muslim weddings the culture they come from heavily influences the kind of rituals that will take place. Similarly American-Muslims e.g. African-Americans, Caucasians, Hispanics and others have elements of both local, and Muslim influence. The central event in all American-Muslim Weddings will be the Nikah. This is the actual ...

  6. Sybil (Schreiber book) - Wikipedia

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    Sybil is a 1973 book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about the treatment of Sybil Dorsett (a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason) for dissociative identity disorder (then referred to as multiple personality disorder) by her psychoanalyst, Cornelia B. Wilbur. The book was made into two television movies of the same name, once in 1976 and again in 2007 ...

  7. African-American Muslims - Wikipedia

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    African-American Muslims, also known as Black Muslims, are an African-American religious minority. [1] African-American Muslims account for over 20% of American Muslims. [2] They represent one of the larger Muslim populations of the United States as there is no ethnic group that makes up the majority of American Muslims. [3]

  8. A Picture of Freedom - Wikipedia

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    The book is written in the form of a diary kept by Clotee, a young slave girl on a Virginia plantation in 1859. Clotee secretly teaches herself to read and write while fanning William, her owner's young son, during his lessons with his mother Miz Lilly.

  9. American Dervish - Wikipedia

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    He decided to explore the idea through the novel: "My sense of the polarities at play for the Muslim women I saw in my childhood is a good part of what makes up the central story of American Dervish. In it, the brilliant and beautiful Mina Ali emigrates to America to rebuild her life after a terrible marriage and ugly divorce back in Pakistan.