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Islam in Africa
by Dr. W.F. Santiago-Valles

Michigan has the largest concentration of Muslims in the United States but information about this population is limited in the Michigan public school and university curriculum. Islam is a growing social force both in the African continent and in the cities of the US that can operate as a bridge in studying how:

1. The religion of traveling Arab merchants was Africanized
2. New rituals are used to connect traditional practices that organize daily life
3. New communities are created through ways of remembering
4. African Muslims acquired awareness of their place in the world

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