Their journey to Islam

• Professor of Islamic Studies at DePaul University
• Founded the program in Islamic World Studies
• Wrote on African American Muslim communities

The full story

Aminah Beverly McCloud is an American academic who accepted Islam in the 1970s. She became a professor of Islamic studies at DePaul University and a leading scholar of African American Muslim communities, helping establish the academic study of Islam in America and writing on the lives and institutions of Black Muslims in the United States.