Stories of Some of the Early “Latino” Muslims (Part 2)

By Yahya Abdul-Latif Figueroa Director, Alianza Islamica Reclaiming heritage lends itself to the false impression of dwelling on the past. The next few lines are about the future flowing from the past. Hopefully a reopening to a humble beginning that accomplished a number of great starts yet confronted many challenges and now must map a…

Muslim History Tour NYC Facebook page: This 1985 article in Islamic Horizons highlights a presentation on Latinx people in Islam at the Museo del Barrio in East Harlem. At this time, a diverse Latino-led community was beginning in the Barrio known as Alianza Islamica, which started in 1987 with a journal of the same name….

This presentation is a comprehensive look at resistance movements from the Sixties through to the present day. It mainly focuses on the roots of resistance and how they influenced early indigenous Muslim communities. Rahim Ocasio presented it at Darul Hijra in Northern Virginia about 2008/2009 as part of a youth program.

Student interviews Rahim Ocasio for a report about Alianza Islamica in 2018.

By Yahya Figueroa Many of our Muslim answers have become dogmatic, repeating of a few themes someone has kind of understood from some book or the other. Iman (faith) is of course the cornerstone of our Muslim lives. I won’t recant basics of faith, theology and points we believe in. These cardinal points are laid…

By Faqir Ibrahim (Teacher at Alianza Islamica) Many of us have lived a lifetime in Islam in the United States.  We are completing our sixth decade –what a spiritual adventure it has been!  With all of the assaults upon the glorious nature of our faith, false maligning and sad misreading’s by fellow Muslims world-wide I…