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A Collector’s Find: How Tariq Suliman Acquired an Original Manuscript of Omar Ibn Said

October 25, 2015 By Samira Abdul-Karim Leave a Comment

A Collector’s Find: How Tariq Suliman Acquired an Original Manuscript of Omar Ibn Said

“I had never heard the story.” Brother Tariq remarked, “...had no idea about the early African American Muslims.” Tariq Suliman (aka Derrick Beard), once an avid collector of African American art and artifacts, is the owner of one of the rare manuscripts of the former enslaved person, Omar ibn Said. However, prior to his acquisition of the manuscript, like many other Americans, Brother Tariq had neither known this specific story nor the stories of other Muslim slaves who had lived during this … [Read more...]

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