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mizukimakita1121 After reading p. 17-27 of the article “The Transnational and…After reading p. 17-27 of the article “The Transnational and Diasporic Future of African American Religions in the United States,” you are aware that the author is giving you information about African American Muslims as well as Muslims from various countries in Africa. Give a quote that focuses on one of the groups or a person from one of those groups that are not Nation of Islam or African American Muslims; remember we are focusing primarily on Black immigrants. Be sure to tell what country/heritage the quote is referring as there are many Muslim groups mentioned. What is something you learned about that group and/or their relationship to other Black Muslims in the Diaspora including the United States?  Image transcription textAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSLIMS A 2008 Gallup poll, which didnot offer an estimate of the total Muslim American population inthe United States, found that 35 percent of its 946 res… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textof the adults surveyed, over one-half of all self-identifying BlackMuslims said that they were third-generation Muslims, meaningthat they likely trace their family’s Muslim roots to the… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textJalon nobleman Abdul Rahman Ibrahima, who arrived in Natchez,Mississippi in 1788 and lived in the United States until 1829,performed their Muslim identity in public as a way to c… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textthem, such as the 1920s Buffalo and Pittsburgh congregationsassociated with Sudanese missionary Satti Majid, were SunniMuslim. Others, like the Moorish Science Temple (MS… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textIslam that emerged after World War II as the preeminent AfricanAmerican Muslim organization. Its card-carrying membershipmay have been limited in size, but the organization, its … Show more… Show moreImage transcription text(but not Arab) identities. Some also incorporated Arabic wordsinto their everyday English language. All of this remaking of Blackidentity in Islamic terms was simultaneously local and … Show more… Show moreImage transcription textmore important was the travel of African American Muslims tostudy the foundations of Islamic religion, including the Qur’an; thehadith (sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad … Show more… Show moreImage transcription textThe integration of American-born Black Muslims into broaderMuslim American intellectual discourses also echoes theintegration of American-born Black Muslims into mult… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textidentities through a variety of means, including bumper stickerson food carts and bumpers that read, “I love Islam.”Attending the Islamic Center of Washington on Massa… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textThe transnational nature of the Senegalese Muslim Americancommunity is different. Well- known in New York City for theirentrepreneurial activities such as operating food carts… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textDebates among US Black Muslims about what is and is notorthodox Islam are likely to continue into the future, as aredisagreements about the proper relationship between… Show more… Show more Arts & HumanitiesEnglish