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The current political climate in the United States lends fresh urgency to the task of remembering the history of enslaved Africans in the Americas, a history that has become vital for understanding today's Islamophobia. To begin this task, this article examines the invocation of the African Muslim slave in Mohamedou Ould Slahi's memoir, Guantánamo Diary, alongside ʿUmar ibn Sayyid's slave autobiography, and expands readings of Islamic prayer in carceral spaces.
This roundtable advances an Africana religions approach to understanding a global array of anti-Muslim practices. The years since September 2001 have witnessed unprecedented public attention toward Islamic religion and Muslim practitioners, largely through media coverage and scholarly studies of state policies promoting repression, cultural bias, and populist violence against Muslims.
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