“Latino Muslims: Our Journeys to Islam”
Did you know you can read the first part of the book for free?
That’s right, you can read the short bios of Khadijah Rivera,
Ibrahim Gonzalez,
and Benjamin Perez for free on your web browser.
Check it out at Amazon.com.
ALIANZA ISLAMICA, pioneering Latino Muslims in New York City. Giving dawah since the 1970’s. ASWAD (Ancient Sacred Wisdom And Development) at Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood.
By Yahya Figueroa Strangely our brothers and sisters following the Salafi model love photos and publicity although many of the same minhaj believe photos to be haram, such as pictures of women with exposed faces. I think it speaks to our confusion that these same ladies embrace modest dressing yet their behavior desires to be…
By Jorge “Fabel” Pabon aka Brother Shukriy As salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu, Alianza Islamica helped form the Muslim I am today. After embracing Islam in August of 1989, I began to mosque hop (going from one mosque to another) in an effort to find my rightful place in an Islamic community. My journey…
Assalaam alaykum, The video below documents a landmark event in the history of El Barrio (Spanish Harlem) and the Latino Muslim story in the United States. It was Alianza Islamica’s attempt to publicly showcase an expression of Muslim culture that was distinctly Latino and accurately reflected our contemporary cultural reality: sights, sounds, music, songs, verse,…
By Danny “Khalil” Salgado Islamic Horizons January/February 2020
By Yahya Abdul Latif Figueroa Director, Alianza Islamica Beginnings and starting points are always difficult to determine and become obscured in the pages of bygone days. How and when movements and ideas bloom is never easy to pinpoint. Historical studies of the same period rarely agree on key issues. Nonetheless, the following lines hope to…