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Search across personalities, stories, themes, sources, and contributors.

Use this broader results surface for discovery across the public archive. Each result keeps a clear record type, context line, and path into the collection.

Personality

Muhammad Ali

Athlete, humanitarian, and public conscience, Kentucky and national public life

Remembered for boxing, anti-war witness, civil-rights-era visibility, philanthropy, and global humanitarian memory.

Personality

Malcolm X

Minister, organizer, and human rights advocate, Nebraska, Michigan, New York, and wider public life

A major American Muslim voice whose life connects civil rights, international human rights, self-education, and public transformation.

Personality

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Athlete, author, and public intellectual, New York and California

Known for basketball, writing, cultural criticism, education, and long public advocacy.

Personality

Keith Ellison

Attorney general and former U.S. representative, Minnesota

Among the best-known Muslim elected officials in the United States, linked to public service, law, and civic representation.

Personality

Ilhan Omar

U.S. representative, Minnesota

A public figure connected to refugee experience, congressional service, representation, and national policy debates.

Personality

Rashida Tlaib

U.S. representative and attorney, Michigan

Known for congressional service, community advocacy, and Palestinian American representation.

Personality

André Carson

U.S. representative, Indiana

A Muslim member of Congress whose profile connects public safety, civic service, and national representation.

Personality

Huma Abedin

Public servant and author, New York and Washington, D.C.

Known for public service, political work, memoir, and Muslim American public visibility.

Personality

Nusrat Choudhury

Federal judge and civil-rights attorney, New York

A legal figure connected to civil rights, federal service, and representation in the judiciary.

Personality

Zahid Quraishi

Federal judge and former military prosecutor, New Jersey

Known for judicial service, military legal service, and public milestones for Muslim Americans.

Personality

Humayun Khan

U.S. Army officer, Virginia and Iraq

Remembered for military service, sacrifice, public memorialization, and American Muslim civic memory.

Personality

Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan

U.S. Army soldier, New Jersey and Iraq

Remembered for U.S. Army service and as a prominent example in discussions of Muslim American military sacrifice.

Theme

American civic leadership

Research theme

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Theme

American service and armed forces

Research theme

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Theme

American sports and public life

Research theme

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Theme

American arts and media

Research theme

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Theme

American scholarship and science

Research theme

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Theme

American business and philanthropy

Research theme

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Theme

American literature and thought

Research theme

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Theme

Hadith scholarship

Research theme

Browse personalities, stories, sources, and timelines connected to hadith scholarship.

Story

American Muslim public life and humanity

Muhammad Ali, 09:13

A front-door story for American Muslim civic life, public service, and humanitarian contribution.

Story

Courage, conscience, and service

Muhammad Ali, 08:20

A chaptered profile path for Muhammad Ali, public conscience, sport, faith, and humanitarian memory.

Story

Service, sacrifice, and American Muslim memory

Humayun Khan, 06:35

A story path for military service, civic memory, and American Muslim sacrifice.

Story

Enterprise, philanthropy, and community care

Hamdi Ulukaya, 05:25

A public-benefit story connecting business leadership, refugee support, and civic contribution.

Story

Science, research, and public good

Aziz Sancar, 05:40

A research-story model for science, higher education, and public knowledge.

Story

Art, memory, and American Muslim visibility

Shirin Neshat, 04:55

A visual-culture story for art, identity, migration, and museum context.

Story

Writing history as a science of society

Ibn Khaldun, 06:20

A chaptered introduction to historical method, social cohesion, and the Muqaddimah.

Story

Measuring the earth, reading cultures carefully

Al-Biruni, 04:45

A story path for astronomy, geography, chronology, and comparative scholarship.

Story

A waqf, a mosque, and a lasting institution

Fatima al-Fihri, 03:35

A research path for women, learning institutions, patronage, and Fez.

Story

Medicine, method, and the Canon tradition

Ibn Sina, 05:10

A chapter on medical learning, method, commentary, and reception.

Story

Machines, water, and illustrated engineering

Al-Jazari, 04:10

A visual story for mechanisms, craft, automata, and design history.

Story

Building an Ottoman cityscape

Mimar Sinan, 05:45

A narrative path for architecture, patronage, urban life, and visual evidence.

Article

House of Wisdom

Institution

An encyclopedia-style article shape for translation circles, libraries, patronage, and scholarly debate in Abbasid Baghdad.

Article

The Muqaddimah

Major work

A public article for the structure, themes, reception, and source history of Ibn Khaldun’s major work.

Article

Bimaristan

Concept

A research article model for hospitals, medical education, charitable institutions, and urban welfare.

Article

Astrolabe

Object

A source-backed article model for instruments, astronomy, navigation, teaching, and craft knowledge.

Article

Source Confidence and Attribution

Policy

How the archive labels source confidence, open-licensed starter references, expert review, and rights status.

Article

Islamic Golden Age

Historical Event

A broad reference article connecting knowledge culture, institutions, translation, medicine, astronomy, law, and literature.

Article

Madrasas and Waqf

Institution

A public reference article for endowments, institutions, teaching spaces, and the care needed around historical claims.

Source

Wikipedia: List of American Muslims

Open web source, Attribution required

Public starter list used only for names/categories in the American Muslim seed dataset. Profile prose remains original editorial summary pending review.

Source

Military History Fandom: American Muslims category

Open web source, Attribution required

Military-history category used as a starter index for American Muslim service-related records. Verify each record before publication.

Source

Manuscript scan: Zakhirat al-muead

Image source, Public domain review

A source record can store credit, rights status, public-domain reasoning, watermark settings, and where the image appears.

Source

Muqaddimah edition and translation

Book source, Publication source

A book source can store author, title, publisher, year, page range, edition notes, archive URL, and citation text.

Source

Expert interview transcript

Private transcript, Restricted source

A private transcript can store interviewee, interviewer, date, location, media type, approval status, and access limits.

Source

Open encyclopedia reference

Web source, Attribution required

Open web articles should preserve source URL, access date, license, revision/date viewed, and attribution language.

Blog

How we mark source confidence on disputed biographies

Editorial note

A model post for explaining attribution, source hierarchy, and uncertainty.

Blog

From expert submission to approved essay

Contributor process

Shows how editors can import an expert essay, edit it, and preserve approval status.

Blog

Building short archive videos with clear AI disclosure

Media note

A policy note for AI-assisted media, watermarks, credits, and review gates.

Contributor

Dr. Maryam Siddiqui

Historian and editorial reviewer

Medieval social thought, historiography, and public education.

Contributor

Omar Faruqi

Research editor

Manuscripts, metadata, rights notes, and archive citations.

Contributor

Layla Rahman

Writer and narrator

Narrative scripts, documentary story arcs, and transcript editing.

Contributor

Yusuf Karim

Artist and visual researcher

Illustrated timelines, maps, visual essays, and image credits.

Contributor

Dr. Hamza Qureshi

Subject reviewer

Hadith, law, tafsir, and scholarly-source review.

Contributor

Sara Nadeem

Media producer

Audio cleanup, documentary clips, and synthetic-media disclosure.